* Today in Black History - September 12 *
1913 - James Cleveland Owens is born in Oakville, Alabama. He will be
better known as Jesse Owens, one of the greatest track and field
stars in history. Owens will achieve fame at the 1936 Summer
Olympic Games in Berlin, where he will win four gold medals,
dispelling Hitler's notion of the superior Aryan race and the
inferiority of black athletes. Among his honors will be the
Medal of Freedom, presented to him by President Gerald Ford in
1976.
1935 - Richard Hunt is born in Chicago, Illinois. A graduate of the
Art Institute of Chicago, he will later study in Europe and
be considered one of the leading sculptors in the United
States. His work will be shown extensively in the United
States and abroad and his sculptures will be collected by the
National Museum of American Art, the Whitney Museum of American
Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Museum of the
Twentieth Century in Vienna.
1944 - Barry White is born in Galveston, Texas. He will become a singer
and songwriter. Some of his hits will be "I'm Gonna Love You
Just A Little More Baby", "Can't Get Enough Of Your Love Babe",
and "Love's Theme [with Love Unlimited Orchestra.
1947 - The first African American baseball player in the major leagues,
Jackie Robinson, is named National League Rookie of the Year.
1956 - African American students are barred from entering a Clay, Kentucky
elementary school. They will enter the school under National
Guard protection on September 17.
1958 - The United States Supreme Court orders a Little Rock, Arkansas high
school to admit African American students.
1964 - Ralph Boston of the United States, sets the long jump record at
27' 4".
1974 - The beginning of court-ordered busing to achieve racial integration
in Boston's public schools is marred by violence in South Boston.
1974 - Eugene A. Marino, SSJ, is consecrated as the first African American
Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop in the United States. He assumes
his duties as auxiliary bishop of Washington, DC.
1974 - Haile Selassie is deposed by military leaders after fifty-eight
years as the ruling monarch of Ethiopia.
1977 - Black South African student and civil rights leader Steven Biko joins
the ancestors after succumbing to severe physical abuse while in
police detention, triggering an international outcry.
1980 - Lillian Randolph joins the ancestors at the age of 65. She had been
a film actress and had starred on television on the "Amos 'n' Andy
Show" and in the mini-series "Roots".
1984 - Michael Jordan signs a seven-year contract to play basketball with
the Chicago Bulls. 'Air' Jordan will become an NBA star for the
Bulls and help make the team a dominant force in the NBA.
1984 - Dwight Gooden, of the New York Mets, sets a rookie strikeout record
by striking out his 251st batter of the season. He also leads the
Mets to a 2-0 shutout over the Pittsburgh Pirates.
1986 - The National Council of Negro Women sponsors its first Black Family
Reunion at the National Mall in Washington, DC. The reunion, which
will grow to encompass dozens of cities and attract over one million
people annually, is held to celebrate and applaud the traditional
values, history, and culture of the African American family.
1989 - David Dinkins, Manhattan borough president, wins the New York City's
Democratic mayoral primary, defeating incumbent Mayor Ed Koch and
two other candidates on his way to becoming the city's first African
American mayor.
1992 - Mae C. Jemison becomes the first woman of color to go into space when
she travels on the space shuttle Endeavour.
1998 - Sammy Sosa of the Chicago Cubs becomes the fourth major league
baseball player to hit 60 home runs in a single season.
1999 - Serena and Venus Williams (sisters) take home the U.S. Open Women's
Doubles Championship trophy. After losing the first set, they
bounce back to win the remaining two sets against Chandra Rubin of
the U.S. and Sandrine Testud of France. The Williams sisters are the
first African-Americans to win a U.S. Open Doubles Championship.
2000 - James Perkins becomes the first African American mayor of Selma,
Alabama, defeating long-time mayor Joe Smitherman with 60% of the
vote. Smitherman had been mayor for thirty six years. He was the
mayor of Selma in 1965 when sheriff's deputies and state troopers
attacked hundreds of voting rights marchers on Selma's Edmund Pettus
Bridge in what became known as "Bloody Sunday."
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