* Today in Black History - September 27 *
1822 - Hiram R. Revels, is born free in Fayetteville, North
Carolina. He will become a minister in the African Methodist
Episcopal Church (AME), a Republican politician, and college
administrator. He will live and work in Ohio, where he will
vote before the Civil War. He will be elected as the first
African American to serve in the United States Senate, and
will be the first African American to serve in the U.S.
Congress. He will represent Mississippi in the Senate in
1870 and 1871 during the Reconstruction era. During the
American Civil War, he will help to organize two regiments
of the United States Colored Troops and serve as a chaplain.
After serving in the Senate, he will be appointed as the
first president of Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical
College (now Alcorn State University), 1871-1873 and 1876 to
1882. He will then serve again as a minister. He will join
the ancestors on January 16, 1901.
1862 - The First Louisiana Native Guards, the first African
American regiment to receive official recognition, is
mustered into the Union army. The Regiment is composed of
free African Americans from the New Orleans area.
1867 - Louisiana voters endorse the constitutional convention and
elect delegates in the first election under The
Reconstruction Acts. The vote was 75,000 for the
convention and 4,000 against.
1875 - Branch Normal College opens in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. A
segregated unit of the state university, the college is
established by Joseph C. Corbin.
1876 - Edward Mitchell Bannister wins a bronze medal for his
painting "Under the Oaks" at the American Centennial
Exposition in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The award to
Bannister will cause controversy among whites who think
African Americans incapable of artistic excellence.
1877 - John Mercer Langston is named Minister to Haiti.
1933 - Francis Gregory Alan 'Greg' Morris is born in Cleveland,
Ohio. He will come to Hollywood in the early 1960s to
become an actor after some minor stage experience in
Seattle, Washington. He will have guest roles on such
series as "Dr. Kildare," "The Dick Van Dyke Show" and
"The Twilight Zone" before being cast in "Mission:
Impossible." He will be one of the first African
American actors to star in a hit series during the 1960s,
playing Barney Collier, the quiet, efficient electronics
expert on "Mission: Impossible," which ran from 1966 to
1973. In 1979, he will go to Las Vegas to film the
television series "Vega$," in which he plays Lt. David
Nelson. He will like the city so much he will decide to
make it his home. He will join the ancestors after
succumbing to cancer there on August 27, 1996.
1936 - Don Cornelius is born in Chicago, Illinois. He will become
the creator, producer, and host of the TV show, "Soul
Train" in 1970. The show will become the longest running
program originally produced for first-run syndication in
the entire history of television. The show’s resounding
success will position it as the cornerstone of the Soul
Train franchise which includes the annual specials: "Soul
Train Music Awards," the "Soul Train Lady of Soul Awards"
and the "Soul Train Christmas Starfest." He will sell the
show to MadVision Entertainment in 2008. He will join the
ancestors on February 1, 2012 after ending his own life.
1940 - African American leaders protest discrimination in the U.S.
Armed Forces and war industries at a White House meeting
with President Roosevelt.
1944 - Stephanie Pogue is born in Shelby, North Carolina. She
will become an artist and art professor whose works will
be collected by New York City's Whitney Museum of American
Art and the Studio Museum of Harlem while she will exhibit
widely in the United States, Europe, Japan, and South
America. Her major exhibits include El Museo de Arte Moderna
La Tertulia, Cali, Colombia, 1976; Cinque Gallery, New York,
1977; City Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan, 1983; Centre
d'Art de Rouge-Cloitre, Brussels, Belgium, 1988; Museo do
Gravura, Curitiba, Brazil, 1991; Fisk University, Nashville,
Tennessee, 1966; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1975;
James V. Herring Art Gallery, Howard University, Washington,
D.C., 1992; Bearing Witness: Contemporary Works by African
American Women Artists, Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia,
1996. She will be a professor and chairperson of the Art
Department at the University of Maryland, College Park from
1981 to the time of her transition. She will join the
ancestors on November 12, 2002.
1950 - Heavyweight champion Ezzard Charles defeats Joe Louis.
1953 - Diane Julie Abbott is born in the working-class neighborhood of
Paddington in London, England. Her mother (a nurse) and
father (a welder) had moved there in 1951 from Jamaica. A
graduate of Cambridge University, she will make history on
June 11, 1987, becoming the first female of African descent to
be a member of the British Parliament. Her outspoken criticism
of racism and her commitment to progressive politics will make
her a controversial figure in Great Britain's Labour Party.
She will serve on a number of parliamentary committees on
social and international issues. For most of the 1990s she will
also serve on the Treasury Select Committee of the House of
Commons. She will go on to serve on the Foreign Affairs Select
Committee. She will chair the All-Party Parliamentary British-
Caribbean Group and the All-Party Sickle Cell and Thalassemia
Group. She will be the founder of the London Schools and the
Black Child initiative, which will aim to raise educational
achievement levels amongst black children. In May 2010, she will
be re-elected in her constituency of Hackney North and Stoke
Newington, with a doubled majority on an increased turn-out. She
will again be re-elected in 2015 with 62% of the vote. At
Goldsmiths, University of London, on 26 October 2012, a jubilee
celebration will be held to honour her 25 years in parliament,
with a series of concerts by Linton Kwesi Johnson, Kadija Sesay,
and others.
1954 - Public school integration begins in Washington, DC and
Baltimore, Maryland.
1961 - Sierre Leone becomes the 100th member of the United Nations.
1967 - Washington, DC's Anacostia Museum, dedicated to informing
the community of the contributions of African Americans to
United States social, political and cultural history,
opens its doors to the public.
1988 - Several athletes, among them black Canadian sprinter Ben
Johnson, are expelled from the Olympic Games for anabolic
steroid use. Johnson's gold medal, won in the 100-meter
dash, is awarded to African American Carl Lewis, the
second-place finisher.
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