* Today in Black History - October 13 *
1831 - Jo Anderson, a slave, helps invent the grain harvester
reaper.
1876 - Meharry Medical College, formally opens at Central
Tennessee College.
1901 - Edith Spurlock (later Sampson) is born in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania. She will graduate from the John Marshall
Law School in Chicago in 1925 with a Bachelor of Laws
degree. In 1927, she will become the first African
American woman to receive a Masters of Laws degree from
Loyola University. She will become a member of the
Illinois bar in 1927, and be admitted to practice before
the Supreme Court in 1934. She will become the first
African American woman to be named a delegate to the
United Nations. She will serve from 1950 to 1953, first
as an appointee of President Harry S. Truman and later
during a portion of the Eisenhower Administration. She
will join the ancestors on October 8, 1979.
1902 - Arna Bontemps is born in Alexandria, Louisiana. He will
become a prolific poet, librarian, and author of
historical and juvenile fiction. Among his best-known
works will be "God Sends Sunday" and "Black Thunder",
the juvenile books "We Have Tomorrow" and "The Story of
the Negro", and "American Negro Poetry", which he will
edit. In 1943, after graduating from the University of
Chicago with a masters degree in library science, he will
be appointed librarian at Fisk University in Nashville,
Tennessee. He will hold that position for 22 years and
will develop important collections and archives of
African American literature and culture. Through his
librarianship and bibliographic work, he will become a
leading figure in establishing African American
literature as a legitimate object of study and
preservation. He will join the ancestors on June 4, 1973.
1906 - J. Saunders Redding is born in Wilmington, Delaware. He
will become a literary and social critic and author of
non-fiction works on the African American experience. He
will earn an advanced degree in English at Brown
University (1932) and will be a professor at various
colleges and universities, including Morehouse, Hampton,
and Cornell. In 1949, his stint as a visiting professor
at Brown will make him the first African American to hold
a faculty position at an Ivy League university. He will
write many books and articles on African American culture
and other topics, including "To Make a Poet Black" (1939),
a landmark history of African American literature; "No Day
of Triumph" (1942), an autobiographical account of a
journey through southern black communities; and "Stranger
and Alone" (1950), a novel, as well as several more general
historical and sociological works. He will also edit with
Arthur P. Davis, an important anthology, "Cavalcade: Negro
American Writing from 1760 to the Present" (1971). He will
join the ancestors on March 2, 1988 at his home in Ithaca,
New York.
1914 - Garrett Augustus Morgan, the son of former slaves, receives
a patent for an invention he calls the "Safety Hood and
Smoke Protector," which came to be known as a gas mask.
1925 - Garland Anderson's "Appearances" opens at the Frolic Theatre
on Broadway. It is the first full-length Broadway play by
an African American.
1942 - The 332nd Fighter Group is activated and becomes the first
African American group in the Army Air Forces. It is comprised
of the 100th, 301st and 302nd Fighter Squadrons.
1946 - Demond Wilson is born in Valdosta, Georgia. He will become
an actor and will be best known as Lamont Sanford on the
long-running television show, "Sanford & Son." He will
author the book Second Banana: The Bittersweet Memoirs of
the Sanford & Son Years, which is released on August 31,
2009. According to an interview on the CelebrityCafe.com
website, he will say: "It's just a documented truth, behind
the scenes factual account of what happened during those
years. Redd (Foxx) and I were making history back in those
days. We were the first blacks to be on television in that
capacity and we opened the door for all those other shows
that came after us." He will start working in 2010 to
produce and act in a melodramatic family film based on the
play "Faith Ties." He will say of the project: "I play a
broken down old drunk whose wife and daughter are killed and
he's given up on life. His only friend is a talking scorpion
named Adonis. The protagonist is a pastor who is in the
middle while he watches the lives of people crumbling around
him."
1962 - Jerry Lee Rice is born in Crawford, Mississippi. He will
become a professional football player, selected as the
16th pick overall in the first round of the NFL draft by the
San Francisco 49ers in 1985. He will retire as the leader in
a number of statistics. His 1,549 receptions were 448 receptions
ahead of the second place record held by Cris Carter. His 22,895
receiving yards were 7,961 yards ahead of the second place spot
held by his Raiders teammate Tim Brown. His 197 touchdown
receptions were 67 scores more than Carter's 130, and his 207
total touchdowns were 32 scores ahead of Emmitt Smith's second
place spot of 175. He will be selected to the Pro Bowl 13 times
(1986–1996, 1998, 2002) and named All-Pro 12 times in his 20 NFL
seasons. He will win three Super Bowl rings playing for the
49ers and an AFC Championship with the Oakland Raiders. He will
be inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame on August 12,
2006. He will retire from the NFL on August 24, 2006. He will be
inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio on
August 7, 2010. On November 4, 2010, he will be chosen by NFL
Network's NFL Films production "The Top 100: NFL's Greatest
Players" as the greatest player in NFL history. As of 2016 he
will hold over 100 NFL records, the most of any player by a wide
margin.
1979 - Clarence Muse joins the ancestors in Perris, California at
the age of 90. He was a pioneer film and stage actor who
appeared in 219 films. His first film was the second talking
movie ever made.
2000 - Isiah Thomas and Bob McAdoo are enshrined into the Basketball
Hall of Fame in Springfield, Massachusetts.
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