*                       Today in Black History - October 2           *

 

1800 - Nat Turner is born in Southampton, Virginia. Believing 

            himself called by God to free his fellow bondsmen, 

            Turner will become a freedom fighter leader of one of 

            the most famous slave revolts, resulting in the death 

            of scores of whites and involving 60 to 80 slaves. 

 

1833 - The New York Anti-Slavery Society is organized. 

 

1898 - Otis J. Rene' is born in New Orleans, Louisiana. With 

            his younger brother Leon, he will move to Los Angeles,

            California, and establish Exclusive and Excelsior 

            Records in the 1930's. By the mid-1940's, the brothers 

            will be leading independent record producers whose 

            artists will include Nat King Cole, Herb Jeffries, and

            Johnny Otis. 

 

1929 - Moses Gunn is born in St. Louis, Missouri.  He will 

            become an actor and will appear in "Amityville II," 

            "Shaft," and "Good Times."

 

1932 - Maurice Morning 'Maury' Wills is born is Washington, DC.

            He will become a professional baseball player and 

            shortstop for the Dodger organization.  He will become

            the National League Most Valuable Player in 1962. 

 

1936 - Johnnie Cochran is born in Shreveport, Louisiana.  He 

            will become a criminal defense attorney and will be 

            best known for his defense of Black Panther Party 

            member Geronimo Pratt and ex-NFL superstar O.J. 

            Simpson. He will join the ancestors on March 29, 2005.

 

1958 - The Republic of Guinea gains independence under the 

            leadership of Sekou Toure. 

 

1965 - Bishop Harold Robert Perry of Lake Charles, Louisiana,

            is named auxiliary bishop of New Orleans by Pope Paul 

            IV. 

 

1967 - Thurgood Marshall becomes the first African American

            member of the United States Supreme Court when he is 

            sworn in by Chief Justice Earl Warren. As chief 

            counsel for the National Association for the 

            Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in the 1940s 

            and '50s, Marshall was the architect and executor of 

            the legal strategy that ended the era of official 

            racial segregation. The great-grandson of a slave, 

            Marshall was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1908. 

            After being rejected from the University of Maryland

            Law School on account of his race, he was accepted at

            all-black Howard University in Washington, DC. At 

            Howard, he studied under the tutelage of civil 

            liberties lawyer Charles H. Houston and in 1933 

            graduated first in his class. In 1936, he joined the

            legal division of the NAACP, of which Houston was 

            director, and two years later succeeded his mentor 

            in the organization's top legal post.

 

1967 - Robert H. Lawrence, who was named the first African 

            American astronaut, joins the ancestors after being 

            killed in a plane crash before his first mission.

               

1968 - Bob Gibson, of the St. Louis Cardinals, sets a world

            series record of 17 strikeouts.

 

1980 - Larry Holmes retains the WBC heavyweight boxing title

            defeating Muhammad Ali.

 

1981 - Hazel Scott, renown jazz singer and pianist, joins 

            the ancestors at the age of 61.

 

1986 - The United States Senate overrides President Ronald 

            Reagan's veto of legislation imposing economic 

            sanctions against South Africa. The override is seen

            as the culmination of efforts by Trans-Africa's 

            Randall Robinson, Rep. Mickey Leland, and others

            begun almost two years earlier with Robinson's 

            arrest before the South African Embassy in 

            Washington, DC. 

 

1989 - "Jump Start" premiers in 40 newspapers in the United 

            States. The comic strip is the creation of 26-year-

            old Robb Armstrong, the youngest African American to 

            have a syndicated comic strip. He follows in the 

            footsteps of Morrie Turner, the creator of "Wee Pals," 

            the first African American syndicated comic strip.


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