*      Today in Black History - September 6             *

1826 - John Brown Russwurm graduates from Bowdoin College.  While many
        sources consider him to be the first African American in
        America to graduate from college, he was preceded by Edward
        Jones (B.A. Amherst College - August 23, 1826) and Alexander
        Lucius Twilight (B.A. Middlebury College - 1823).

1848 - National Black Convention meets in Cleveland, Ohio with some
        seventy delegates.   Frederick Douglass is elected president
        of the convention.

1865 - Thaddeus Stevens, powerful U.S. congressman, urges confiscation
        of estates of Confederate leaders and the distribution of land
        to adult freedmen in forty-acre lots.

1866 - Frederick Douglass becomes the first African American delegate
        to a national political convention.

1876 - A race riot occurs in Charleston, South Carolina.

1892 - George "Little Chocolate" Dixon beats Jack Skelly in New Orleans
        to win the world featherweight title. While some African American
        citizens celebrate for two days, the New Orleans Times-Democrat
        says, "It was a mistake to match a Negro and a white man, to bring
        the races together on any terms of equality even in the prize ring."

1905 - The Atlanta Life Insurance Company is established by A.F. Herndon.

1930 - Leander Jay Shaw, Jr. is born in Salem, Virginia.  He will become a
        justice of the Florida State Supreme Court in 1983 and, in 1990,
        the chief justice, a first in Florida and the second African
        American chief justice in any state supreme court.

1966 - A racially motivated civil disturbance occurs in Atlanta, Georgia.

1967 - President Lyndon B. Johnson names Walter E. Washington, commissioner
        and "unofficial" mayor of Washington, DC.

1968 - The Kingdom of Swaziland achieves full independence from Great
        Britain as a constitutional monarchy.

1982 - Willie Stargell, of the Pittsburgh Pirates, sees his uniform, number
        8, retired by the Bucs.  It is the fourth Pirate player's uniform
        to be so honored.  The other three belonged to Roberto Clemente
        (#21), Honus Wagner (#33) and Pie Traynor (#20).

1988 - Lee Roy Young becomes the first African American Texas Ranger in the
        police force's 165-year history.  Young is a 14-year veteran of the
        Texas Department of Public Safety.

1989 - The International Amateur Athletic Federation bans Ben Johnson
        of Canada from competition, after he tests positive for steroids.
        He is also stripped of all of his track records.

1989 - The National Party, the governing party of South Africa, loses
        nearly a quarter of its parliamentary seats to far-right and anti-
        apartheid rivals, its worst setback in four decades.

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