*		Today in Black History - September 6           *

1826 - John Brown Russwurm graduates from Bowdoin College. While 
	many sources consider him to be the first African American 
	in America to graduate from college, he was preceded by 
	Edward Jones (B.A. Amherst College - August 23, 1826) and
	Alexander Lucius Twilight (B.A. Middlebury College - 
	1823). 

1848 - National Black Convention meets in Cleveland, Ohio with 
	some seventy delegates. Frederick Douglass is elected 
	president of the convention.

1865 - Thaddeus Stevens, powerful U.S. congressman, urges 
	confiscation of estates of Confederate leaders and the 
	distribution of land to adult freedmen in forty-acre 
	lots.

1866 - Frederick Douglass becomes the first African American 
	delegate to a national political convention.

1876 - A race riot occurs in Charleston, South Carolina.

1892 - George "Little Chocolate" Dixon beats Jack Skelly in New 
	Orleans to win the world featherweight title. While some 
	African American citizens celebrate for two days, the New 
	Orleans Times-Democrat says, "It was a mistake to match a 
	Negro and a white man, to bring the races together on any 
	terms of equality even in the prize ring."

1905 - The Atlanta Life Insurance Company is established by A.F. 
	Herndon.

1930 - Leander Jay Shaw, Jr. is born in Salem, Virginia. He will
	attend public schools in Virginia and receive his 
	bachelor's degree in 1952 from West Virginia State College 
	in Institute, West Virginia. After serving in the Korean 
	conflict as an artillery officer, he will enter law school 
	and earn his juris doctor degree in 1957 from Howard 
	University in Washington, D.C. He will become a justice of 
	the Florida State Supreme Court in 1983 and, in 1990, the 
	chief justice, a first in Florida and the second African 
	American chief justice in any state supreme court.

1966 - A racially motivated civil disturbance occurs in Atlanta, 
	Georgia. 

1967 - President Lyndon B. Johnson names Walter E. Washington, 
	commissioner and "unofficial" mayor of Washington, DC.

1968 - The Kingdom of Swaziland achieves full independence from 
	Great Britain as a constitutional monarchy.

1982 - Willie Stargell, of the Pittsburgh Pirates, sees his 
	uniform, number 8, retired by the Bucs. It is the fourth 
	Pirate player's uniform to be so honored. The other 
	three belonged to Roberto Clemente (#21), Honus Wagner 
	(#33) and Pie Traynor (#20).

1988 - Lee Roy Young becomes the first African American Texas 
	Ranger in the police force's 165-year history. Young is 
	a 14-year veteran of the Texas Department of Public 
	Safety.

1989 - The International Amateur Athletic Federation bans Ben 
	Johnson of Canada from competition, after he tests 
	positive for steroids. He is also stripped of all of his 
	track records.

1989 - The National Party, the governing party of South Africa, 
	loses nearly a quarter of its parliamentary seats to 
	far-right and anti-apartheid rivals, its worst setback 
	in four decades. 

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