* Today in Black History - September 4 *
1781 - California's second pueblo near San Gabriel, Nuestra Senora
la Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula (Los Angeles,
California) is founded by forty-four settlers, of whom at
least twenty-six were descendants of Africans. Among the
settlers of African descent, according to H.H. Bancroft's
authoritative "History of California," were "Joseph Moreno,
Mulatto, 22 years old, wife a Mulattress, five children;
Manuel Cameron, Mulatto, 30 years old, wife Mulattress;
Antonio Mesa, Negro, 38 years old, wife Mulattress, six
children; Jose Antonio Navarro, Mestizo, 42 years old,
wife, Mulattress, three children; Basil Rosas, Indian, 68
years old, wife, Mulattress, six children."
1848 - Louis H. Latimer is born in Chelsea, Massachusetts. A one-
time draftsman and preparer of patents for Alexander
Graham Bell, he will later join the United States Electric
Company, where he will patent a carbon filament for the
incandescent lamp. When he joins the ancestors on December
11, 1928, he will be eulogized by his co-workers as a
valuable member of the "Edison Pioneers," a group of men
and women who advanced electrical light usage in the
United States.
1865 - Bowie State College (now University) is established in Bowie,
Maryland.
1875 - The Clinton Massacre occurs in Clinton, Mississippi. Twenty
to thirty African Americans are killed over a two-day
period.
1908 - Richard Nathaniel Wright is born on a plantation near Natchez
Mississippi. He will become an author of sometimes
controversial novels, short stories, poems, and non-fiction.
Much of his literature will concern racial themes, especially
those involving the plight of African Americans during the
late 19th to mid-20th centuries. Literary critics will
believe that his work helped change race relations in the
United States in the mid-20th century. He will become the
author of the best-selling "Native Son," "Uncle Tom's
Children," and "Black Boy." In January 1941, he will
receive the prestigious Spingarn Medal for noteworthy
achievement by an African American. He will be among the
first African American writers to protest white treatment of
African Americans. He will move to Paris in 1946, and become
a permanent American expatriate. In Paris, he will become
friends with Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus. His
Existentialist phase will be depicted in his second novel,
"The Outsider" (1953). After becoming a French citizen in
1947, he will continue to travel through Europe, Asia, and
Africa. These experiences will be the basis of numerous
nonfiction works. He will join the ancestors in Paris on
November 28, 1960.
1942 - Merald 'Bubba' Knight is born in Atlanta, Georgia. He will
become a singer with his sister Gladys Knight as part of
her background group, The Pips. They will record many
songs including "Midnight Train to Georgia," "Best Thing
That Ever Happened to Me," "I Heard It Through the
Grapevine," "Every Beat of My Heart," "Letter Full of
Tears," and "The Way We Were/Try to Remember" medley.
1953 - Lawrence-Hilton Jacobs is born in New York City. He will
become an actor and will appear in a number of films and
television shows, including "Claudine" (1974), "Cooley High"
(1975), "Roots" (1977), "Welcome Back, Kotter" (1975–79),
"Bangers and Mash" (1983), and "The Jacksons: An American
Dream" (1992).
1957 - The governor of Arkansas, Orval Faubus, calls out the
National Guard to stop nine African American students
from entering Central High School in Little Rock,
Arkansas. Three weeks later, President Dwight Eisenhower
sends a force of 1,000 U.S. Army paratroopers (The 101st
Airborne) to Little Rock to guarantee the peaceful
desegregation of the public school.
1960 - Damon Kyle Wayans is born in New York City, New York. He
will become an actor/comedian and will star in "In Living
Color," "Major Payne," "Blankman," "Celtic Pride,"
"The Great White Hype" and many others. He will perform as
a comedian and actor throughout the 1980s, including a
yearlong stint on the sketch comedy series "Saturday Night
Live," although his true breakthrough came as a co-creator
and performer on his own sketch comedy show, "In Living
Color," from 1990 to 1992. Since then he will star in a
number of films and television shows, some of which he will
co-produce or co-write, including "The Last Boy Scout" and
"Major Payne," and the sitcom, "My Wife and Kids." In 2006,
he will produce and star in the Showtime sketch comedy
series, "The Underground," which also features his son,
Damon Jr. He will also host the 2006 BET Awards. In 2011,
he will also add author of a serious fictional novel to his
credits with "Red Hats," which is the story of a suicidal
65-year-old woman who finds friendship and happiness when
she joins the Red Hat Society. As of 2014, he will continue
to perform stand up comedy and developed apps with his
company of freelancers "MIMS" (Money in My Sleep). The
company will create applications such as Flick Dat, Diddeo
and VHedz. On November 12, 2015, at the Irvine Improv, he
will announce his retirement from stand-up commencing
December, 2015. In 2016, he will be cast as Roger Murtaugh
in the television version of "Lethal Weapon," a role
originated by Danny Glover in the film series.
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