*               Today in Black History - August 30              *

1800 - Jack Bowler and Coachman Gabriel Prosser's plans for a slave
        revolt in Richmond, Virginia, are betrayed by a pair of house
        slaves attempting to save their master.  Prosser's plan, which
        involved over 1,100 slaves, would have resulted in the death
        of all slave-owning whites, but would have spared Quakers,
        Frenchmen, elderly women, and children.

1838 - The first African American magazine "Mirror of Freedom", begins
        publication in New York City by abolitionist David Ruggles.

1843 - The Liberty Party has the first African American participation
        in a national political convention.  Samuel R. Ward leads the
        convention in prayer -- Henry Highland Garnet, a twenty-seven-
        year-old Presbyterian pastor who calls for a slave revolt and
        a general slave strike.  Amos G. Beman of New Haven, Connecticut
        is elected president of the convention.

1856 - Wilberforce University is established in Xenia, Ohio under the
        auspices of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  In 1863, the
        university was transferred to the African Methodist Episcopal
        (AME) Church.

1861 - General John C. Fremont issues an order confiscating the
        property of Confederates and emancipating their slaves.  The
        order causes wide-spread protest and is revoked by President
        Lincoln.

1892 - S. R. Scottron patents a curtain rod.

1901 - Roy Wilkins is born in St. Louis, Missouri. He will become a
        civil rights leader, assistant executive secretary of the
        NAACP under Walter White and editor of the Crisis Magazine
        for 15 years.  He will become Executive Secretary of the NAACP
        in 1955, a post he will hold for 22 years.  During his tenure,
        he will be a champion of civil rights committed to using
        constitutional arguments to help obtain full citizenship rights
        for all African Americans.

1931 - Carrie Saxon Perry is born in Hartford, Conn. In 1987, she will
        elected mayor of Hartford, becoming the first African American
        mayor of a major eastern United States city.

1953 - Robert Parish, NBA center (Boston Celtics), is born.

1956 - A white mob prevents the enrollment of blacks at Mansfield High
        School in Texas.

1961 - James Benton Parsons is confirmed as the first African American
        judge of a United States District Court in the continental
        United States (Northern Illinois).  He had been appointed by
        President John F. Kennedy on April 18, 1961.

1967 - Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the first African American
        justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.  He had been appointed by
        President Lyndon Johnson on June 13, 1967.

1969 - Racial disturbances occur in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

1983 - Lt. Colonel Guion S. Bluford is the first African American in
        space when he serves as a mission specialist on the Challenger
        space shuttle.

1987 - Ben Johnson of Canada runs 100 meters in world record time of
        9.83 seconds.

1990 - Ken Griffey & Ken Griffey, Jr. become the first father & son to
        play on the same team (Seattle Mariners).  Both single in the
        first inning.

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