*	       Today in Black History - October 8            *

1775 - A council of general officers decides to bar slaves and 
	free African Americans from serving in the Continental
	Army.

1930 - Faith Ringgold is born in New York City. She will become 
	a multimedia artist whose paintings, face masks, fabric 
	and soft sculptures, and quilts will earn her praise for 
	her reaffirmation of African American women's values and 
	unique perspective. In 1995, she will publish her first 
	autobiography entitled "We Flew Over the Bridge." The 
	book will be a memoir detailing her journey as an artist 
	and life events, from her childhood in Harlem and Sugar 
	Hill, to her marriages and children, to her professional 
	career and accomplishments as an artist. Two years later, 
	she will receive two honorary Doctorates, one for 
	Education from Wheelock College in Boston, and the second 
	for Philosophy from Molloy College in New York.

1941 - Jesse Louis Burns, later named Jesse L. Jackson, is born 
	in Greenville, South Carolina. He will become a civil 
	rights leader, minister and founder of Operation PUSH 
	(People United to Save Humanity) in 1971, an organization 
	that will focus attention on the economic disparity 
	between whites and African Americans. In 1988, he will be 
	a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination,
	winning 18.09% of the Democractic primary vote. He will 
	serve as a shadow U.S. Senator for the District of 
	Columbia from 1991 to 1997. 

1950 - Robert Earl "Kool" Bell is born in Youngstown, Ohio and 
	raised in Jersey City, New Jersey. He will become a Rhythm 
	and Blues singer and will become co-founder and leader of 
	the group, "Kool & the Gang."

1963 - The Sultan of Zanzibar cedes his mainland possessions to 
	Kenya.

1969 - Police officers and African Americans exchange sniper 
	fire on Chicago's West Side. One youth is killed and 
	nine policemen are injured.

1992 - The Nobel Prize for literature is awarded to West Indies 
	poet, Derek Walcott.

1993 - The U.N. General Assembly lifts almost all its remaining
	economic sanctions against South Africa, begun in the 
	1960s and built up in subsequent years because of 
	Pretoria's policy of racial apartheid.

1999 - Laila Ali, the 21-year-old daughter of Muhammad Ali, 
	makes her professional boxing debut by knocking out 
	opponent April Fowler 31 seconds after the opening bell 
	in Verona, New  York. 

2009 - Abu Talib, bluesman who recorded and toured with Ray Charles
	and Little Walter under his given name, Freddy Robinson,
	joins the ancestors in Lancaster, California after 
	succumbing to cancer.

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