* Today in Black History - September 2 *
1766 - Abolitionist, inventor, and entrepreneur, James Forten is
born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1833 - Oberlin College, one of the first colleges to admit
African Americans, is founded in Oberlin, Ohio.
1864 - In series of battles around Chaffin's Farm in the suburbs
of Richmond, Virginia, African American troops capture
entrenchments at New Market Heights, make a gallant but
unsuccessful assault on Fort Gilmer and help repulse a
Confederate counterattack on Fort Harrison.
1902 - "In Dahomey" premieres at the Old Globe Theater in Boston,
Massachusetts. With music by Will Marion Cook and lyrics
by poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, it is the most successful
musical of its day.
1911 - Romare Bearden is born in Charlotte, North Carolina. His
family will move to the village of Harlem in New York
City in 1914. He will call New York his home for the
rest of his life. A student at New York University, the
American Artists School, Columbia University, and the
Sorbonne, Bearden's depiction of the rituals and social
customs of African American life will be imbued with an
eloquence and power that will earn him accolades as one
of the finest artists of the 20th century and a master
of collage. Among his honors will be election to the
American Academy of Arts and Letters and the National
Institute of Arts and Letters, and receiving the
President's National Medal of Arts in 1987. He will join
the ancestors on March 12, 1988 after succumbing to
complications of bone cancer.
1928 - Horace Ward Martin Tavares Silver is born in Norwalk,
Connecticut. He will become a jazz pianist, bandleader,
and composer who will initially lead the Jazz Messengers
with drummer Art Blakey before forming his own band in
1956. A pioneer of the hard bop style, he will attract
to his band the talents of Art Farmer, Donald Byrd, and
Blue Mitchell, among others. He will join the ancestors
on June 18, 2014.
1945 - The end of World War II (V-J Day). A total of 1,154,720
African Americans have been inducted or drafted into the
armed forces. Official records list 7,768 African
American commissioned officers on August 31, 1945. At
the height of the conflict, 3,902 African American women
(115 officers) were enrolled in the Women's Army
Auxiliary Corps (WACS) and 68 were in the Navy auxiliary,
the WAVES. The highest ranking African American women
were Major Harriet M. West and Major Charity E. Adams.
Distinguished Unit Citations were awarded to the 969th
Field Artillery Battalion, the 614th Tank Destroyer
Battalion, and the 332nd Fighter Group (Tuskegee Airmen).
1946 - William Everett "Billy" Preston is born in Houston, Texas.
He will become a musician songwriter and singer. His hits
will include "Will It Go Round in Circles", "Nothing from
Nothing", "Outa-Space", "Get Back" (with The Beatles),
and "With You I'm Born Again"(with Syreeta). He also will
appear in film: "St. Louis Blues" and play with Little
Richard's Band. He will collaborate with some of the
greatest names in the music industry, including the
Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Little Richard, Ray Charles,
George Harrison, Elton John, Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, Sam
Cooke, King Curtis, Sammy Davis Jr., Sly Stone, Aretha
Franklin, the Jackson 5, Quincy Jones, Richie Sambora,
and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. He will play the electric
piano on the Get Back sessions in 1969 and is one of
several people sometimes credited as the "Fifth Beatle".
He is one of only two non-Beatles to receive label
performance credit on any Beatles record. He will join
the ancestors on June 6, 2006 in Scottsdale, Arizona.
1956 - The Tennessee National Guard is sent to Clinton, Tennessee,
to quell white mobs demonstrating against school
integration.
1960 - Eric Dickerson is born in Sealy, Texas. He will become a
professional football player and will become NFC Rookie
of the Year in 1983. He will also set a NFL single-
season rushing record of 2,105 yards in 1984.
1963 - Alabama Governor George Wallace blocks the integration of
Tuskegee High School in Tuskegee, Alabama.
1965 - Lennox Claudius Lewis is born in West Ham, London, England.
He will become a professional boxer who will compete from
1989 to 2003. He will be a three-time world heavyweight
champion, a two-time lineal champion, and remain the last
heavyweight to hold the undisputed title. He holds dual
British and Canadian citizenship; as an amateur he will
represent Canada at the 1988 Summer Olympics, winning a
gold medal in the super-heavyweight division after
defeating future world champion Riddick Bowe in the final.
He will win the lineal title by defeating Shannon Briggs
in 1998. Two fights against Evander Holyfield in 1999 (the
first of which ended in a controversial draw) will see
him become undisputed heavyweight champion by unifying his
WBC title with Holyfield's WBA and IBF titles, as well as
the vacant IBO title. In 2000, the WBA will strip him of
their title when he opts to face Michael Grant instead of
mandatory challenger John Ruiz. He will be knocked out by
Hasim Rahman in a 2001 upset, but this defeat will be
avenged later in the year. In 2002, he will defeat Mike
Tyson in one of the most highly anticipated fights in
boxing history. Prior to the event, he will be awarded the
Ring magazine heavyweight title, which had been vacant
since the late 1980s and was last held by Tyson. In what
will be his final fight, in 2003, he will defeat Vitali
Klitschko in a bloody encounter. He will vacate his
remaining titles and retire from boxing in 2004. He will
often refer to himself as "the pugilist specialist".
During his boxing prime he was 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) tall,
with an 84 inch (210 cm) reach, and weigh about 245 lb
(111 kg). He will be regarded by many as one of the
greatest heavyweight boxers of all time, and also one of
the greatest British fighters of all time. In 1999 he will
be named Fighter of the Year by the Boxing Writers
Association of America, and BBC Sports Personality of the
Year.
1966 - Frank Robinson is named Most Valuable Player of the
American League.
1971 - Cheryl White becomes the first African American woman
jockey to win a sanctioned horse race.
1975 - Joseph W. Hatchett sworn in as first African American
state supreme court justice in the South (Florida) in
the twentieth century.
1978 - Reggie Jackson is 19th player to hit 20 home runs in 11
straight years.
1989 - Rev. Al Sharpton leads a civil rights march through the
Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn, New York.
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