*                 Today in Black History - September 14               *

1874 - White Democrats seize the statehouse in a Louisiana coup d'etat.
        President Grant orders the revolutionaries to disperse, and the
        rebellion collapses.  Twenty-seven persons (sixteen whites and
        eleven Blacks) are killed in battles between the Democrats and
        Republicans.

1891 - John Adams Hyman joins the ancestors in Washington, DC.  He was
        the first African American congressman from the state of North
        Carolina.

1921 - Constance Baker Motley is born in New Haven, Connecticut.  She
        will achieve many distinctions in her career, including being
        the only woman elected to the New York Senate in 1964, the
        only woman Manhattan borough president, and the first African
        American woman to be named as a federal court judge in 1966.
        She will later serve as chief judge of the Southern District
        of New York.

1940 - African Americans are allowed to enter all branches of the
        United States Military Service, when President Franklin D.
        Roosevelt signs the Selective Service Act.

1964 - Leontyne Price and A. Philip Randolph are among the recipients
        of the Medal of Freedom awarded by President Lyndon B. Johnson.

1970 - One African American is killed and two whites are injured in
        shoot-out between activists and police officers in a New
        Orleans housing project.

2003 - Yetunde Price, the oldest sister of tennis stars Venus and Serena
        Williams, joins the ancestors at the age of 31 after being killed
        in a shooting at her place of business.

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