*              Today in Black History - September 28             *

1785 - David Walker, who will become an abolitionist and write the
        famous "Walker's Appeal," is born free in Wilmington, North
        Carolina.

1829 -  Walker's Appeal, racial antislavery pamphlet, published in
        Boston, Massachusetts, by David Walker.

1833 - Lemuel Haynes, Revolutionary War veteran and first African
        American to be ordained by the Congregational Church, dies at
        80.

1912 - W.C. Handy's ground-breaking "Memphis Blues" is published in
        Memphis, Tennessee.  The composition was originally entitled
        "Mr. Crump" and was written for the 1909 political campaign
        of Edward H. "Boss" Crump.

1938 - Ben E. King, singer (Stand by Me), is born in North Carolina.

1941 - Charley Taylor, NFL wide receiver/running back with the
        Washington Redskins, is born.

1945 - Todd Duncan debuts with the New York City Opera as Tonio in Il
        Pagliacci.  He is the first African American to sing a leading
        role with a major American company, almost ten years before
        Marian Anderson sings with the Metropolitan Opera.

1961 - Ossie Davis's "Purlie Victorious" opens on Broadway.  The play
        stars Davis, Ruby Dee, Godfrey Cambridge, Alan Alda, and Beah
        Richards.

1961 - Atlanta's segregated restaurants and other public facilities
        are peacefully integrated, part of a plan adopted by city
        officials earlier in the year.

1972 - The Secretary of the Army repeals the dishonorable discharges
        of 167 soldiers involved in the Brownsville (Texas) Raid.  The
        soldiers, members of the 25th Infantry who were involved in
        a riot with the city's police and merchants, were dishonorably
        discharged by President Theodore Roosevelt without a trial.

1976 - Muhammad Ali retains the heavyweight boxing championship in a
        close 15-round decision over Ken Norton at Yankee Stadium.

1979 - Larry Holmes retains the heavyweight boxing championship by
        knocking out Earnie Shavers in 11 rounds.

1981 - Joseph Paul Franklin, avowed racist, is sentenced to life
        imprisonment for killing 2 African American joggers in Salt
        Lake City, Utah.

1987 - The National Museum of African Art, now a part of the
        Smithsonian Institution, opens on the Mall in Washington, DC.
        Founded by Warren M. Robbins in 1964 as a private educational
        institution, it is the only museum in the United States
        devoted exclusively to the collection, study, and exhibition
        of the art of sub-Saharan Africa.

1990 - Marvin Gaye gets a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.

1991 - Miles Davis,  jazz musician, dies at 65 from pneumonia.

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