* Today in Black History - September 9 *
1739 - Led by a slave named Jemmy (Cato), a slave revolt occurs
in Stono, South Carolina. Twenty-five whites are killed
before the insurrection is put down.
1806 - Sarah Mapps Douglass is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
She is the daughter of renowned abolitionists Robert
Douglass, Sr. and Grace Bustill Douglass. As a child, she
enjoys life among Philadelphia's elite and will be well
educated by a private tutor. She will become a teacher in
New York, but will return to Philadelphia where she will
operate a successful private school for Black women,
giving women of color the opportunity to receive a high
school education. As the daughter of one of the
Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society's founding
members, she will become active in the abolitionist
movement at a young age. She will develop a distaste for
the prejudices of white Quakers early on and will devote
much of her life to combating slavery and racism. She
will develop a close friendship with white Quaker
abolitionists Sarah and Angelina Grimke. At the urgings
of the Grimke sisters, She will attend the Anti-Slavery
Convention of American Women, held in New York in
1837--the first national convention of American
antislavery women to integrate Black and white members--
and serve on the ten-member committee on arrangements for
the convention. Throughout her abolitionist career, she
will also serve as recording secretary, librarian, and
manager for the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society,
contribute to both the Liberator and the Anglo-African
Magazine, become a fundraiser for the Black press, give
numerous public lectures, and serve as vice-president of
the women's branch of the Freedmen's Aid Society. From
1853 to 1877, she will serve as a supervisor at the
Institute for Colored Youth, a Quaker-sponsored
establishment. During this time, she will also acquire
basic medical training at the Female Medical College of
Pennsylvania and at Pennsylvania Medical University,
where she will study female health and hygiene--subjects
on which she will lecture in evening classes and at
meetings of the Banneker Institute. In 1855, she will
marry African American Episcopal clergyman William
Douglass. She will join the ancestors on September 8, 1882.
1816 - Rev. John Gregg Fee, the son of white slaveholders, is
born in Bracken County, Kentucky. He will become member
of the American Missionary Association, and will found a
settlement called "Berea" on land donated to him by an
admirer, Cassius Marcellus Clay. It will be later that
he will be inspired to build a college, adjacent to the
donated land - Berea College, the first interracial
college in the state. During the American Civil War, He
will work at Camp Nelson to have facilities constructed
to support freedmen and their families, and to provide
them with education and preaching while the men were being
taught to be soldiers. He died on January 11, 1901.
1817 - Captain Paul Cuffe, entrepreneur and civil rights activist,
joins the ancestors at the age of 58, in Westport,
Masschusetts. Cuffe was a Massachusetts shipbuilder and
sea captain. He also was one of the most influential
African American freedmen of the eighteenth century. In
1780, Cuffe and six other African Americans refused to
pay taxes until they were granted citizenship. Massachusetts
gave African Americans who owned property the vote three
years later. Although Cuffe became wealthy, he believed
that most African Americans would never be completely
accepted in white society. In 1816, Cuffe began one of the
first experiments in colonizing African Americans in Africa
when he brought a group to Sierra Leone. Cuffe's experiment
helped inspire the founding of the American Colonization
Society later that year.
1823 - Alexander Lucius Twilight, becomes the first African American
to earn a baccalaureate degree in the United States, when he
graduates from Middlebury College with a BA degree.
1915 - A group of visionary scholars (George Cleveland Hall, W.B.
Hartgrove, Alexander L. Jackson, and James E. Stamps) led by
Dr. Carter G. Woodson found the Association for the Study of
Negro Life and History (ASNLH) in Chicago, Illinois. Dr. Woodson
is convinced that among scholars, the role of his own people in
American history and in the history of other cultures was being
either ignored or misrepresented. Dr. Woodson realizes the need
for special research into the neglected past of the Negro. The
association is the only organization of its kind concerned with
preserving African American history.
1928 - Silvio Cator of Haiti, sets the then long jump record at 26' 0".
1934 - Wilsonia Benita Driver is born in Birmingham, Alabama. She will
become a noted poet, playwright, short story writer, and author of
children's books known as Sonia Sanchez. She will be most noted
for her poetry volumes "We a BaddDDD People", "A Blues Book for
Blue Black Magical Women", and anthologies she will edit including
"We Be Word Sorcerers: 25 Stories by Black Americans."
1941 - Otis Redding is born in Dawson, Georgia, the son of a Baptist minister.
He will become a rhythm and blues musician and singer and will be best
known for his recording of "[Sittin' on] The Dock of the Bay," which
will be released after he joins the ancestors. Some of his other hits
were "I've Been Loving You Too Long", "Respect", and "Try A Little
Tenderness." He will join the ancestors on December 10, 1967 after his
plane crashes en route to a concert in Madison, Wisconsin.
1942 - Inez Foxx is born in Greensboro, North Carolina. She will become a
rhythm and blues singer and will perform as part of a duo act with her
brother, Charlie. Their biggest hit will be "Mockingbird" in 1963. They
will record together until 1967.
1942 - Luther Simmons, Jr. is born in New York City, New York. He will become a
rhythm and blues singer with the group "The Main Ingredient." They will
be best known for their hit, "Everybody Plays the Fool."
1945 - Dione LaRue is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She will become a
rhythm and blues singer better known as "Dee Dee Sharp." Her first hit
will be "It's Mashed Potato Time" in 1962. She will also record "Gravy"
[For My Mashed Potatoes], "Ride!", "Do the Bird", and "Slow Twistin' "
(with Chubby Checker).
1957 - President Eisenhower signs the first civil rights bill passed by Congress
since Reconstruction.
1957 - Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth is mobbed when he attempts to enroll his
daughters in a "white" Birmingham school.
1957 - Nashville's new Hattie Cotton Elementary School with enrollment of one
African American and 388 whites is virtually destroyed by a dynamite blast.
1962 - Two churches are burned near Sasser, Georgia. African American leaders ask
the president to stop the "Nazi-like reign of terror in southwest Georgia."
1963 - Alabama Governor George Wallace is served a federal injunction when he orders
state police to bar African American students from enrolling in white schools.
1968 - Arthur Ashe becomes the first (and first African American) Men's Singles Tennis
Champion of the newly established U.S. Open tennis championships at Forest
Hills, New York.
1971 - More than 1,200 inmates at the Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New York
gain control of the facility in a well-planned takeover. During the initial
violence, 50 correctional officers and civilian employees are beaten and taken
hostage. Correctional officer William Quinn receives the roughest beating and
is soon freed by the inmates due to the severity of his injuries. Police
handling of the takeover will result in the deaths of many inmates and will
turn the nation's interest toward the conditions in U.S. penal institutions.
1979 - Robert Guillaume wins an Emmy award for 'Best Actor in a Comedy Series' for his
performances in "Soap".
1981 - Vernon E. Jordan resigns as president of the National Urban League and announces
plans to join a Washington DC legal firm. He will be succeeded by John E. Jacob,
executive vice president of the league.
1984 - Walter Payton, of the Chicago Bears, breaks Jim Brown's combined yardage record
-- by reaching 15,517 yards.
1985 - President Reagan orders sanctions against South Africa because of that country's
apartheid policies.
1990 - Liberian President Samuel K. Doe is captured and joins the ancestors after being
killed by rebel forces. In 1985, he was elected president, but Charles Taylor and
followers overthrew his government in 1989, which will spark a seven-year long
civil war.
______________________________________________________________
Munirah Chronicle is edited by Mr. Rene' A. Perry
"The TRUTH shall make you free"
E-mail: <[log in to unmask]>
Archives: http://listserv.icors.org/archives/Munirah.html
http://blackagenda.com/cybercolonies/index.htm
_____________________________________________________________
To SUBSCRIBE send E-mail to: <[log in to unmask]>
In the E-mail body place: Subscribe Munirah Your FULL Name
______________________________________________________________
Munirah(TM) is a trademark of Information Man. Copyright 1997 - 2016,
All Rights Reserved by the Information Man in association with
The Black Agenda.
|