*      Today in Black History - September 12             *

1913 - James Cleveland Owens is born in Oakville, Alabama. He will be
        better known as Jesse Owens, one of the greatest track and field
        stars in history.  Owens will achieve fame at the 1936 Summer
        Olympic Games in Berlin, where he will win four gold medals,
        dispelling Hitler's notion of the superior Aryan race and the
        inferiority of black athletes.  Among his honors will be the
        Medal of Freedom, presented to him by President Gerald Ford in
        1976.

1935 - Richard Hunt is born in Chicago, Illinois.  A graduate of the
        Art Institute of Chicago, he will later study in Europe and
        be considered one of the leading sculptors in the United
        States.  His work will be shown extensively in the United
        States and abroad and his sculptures will be collected by the
        National Museum of American Art, the Whitney Museum of American
        Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Museum of the
        Twentieth Century in Vienna.

1944 - Barry White is born in Galveston, Texas.  He will become a singer
        and songwriter.  Some of his hits will be "I'm Gonna Love You
        Just A Little More Baby", "Can't Get Enough Of Your Love Babe",
        and "Love's Theme [with Love Unlimited Orchestra.

1947 - The first African American baseball player in the major leagues,
        Jackie Robinson, is named National League Rookie of the Year.

1956 - African American students are barred from entering a Clay, Kentucky
        elementary school.  They will enter the school under National
        Guard protection on September 17.

1958 - The United States Supreme Court orders a Little Rock, Arkansas high
        school to admit African American students.

1964 - Ralph Boston of the United States, sets the long jump record at
        27' 4".

1974 - The beginning of court-ordered busing to achieve racial integration
        in Boston's public schools is marred by violence in South Boston.

1974 - Eugene A. Marino, SSJ, is consecrated as the first African American
        Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop in the United States.  He assumes
        his duties as auxiliary bishop of Washington, DC.

1974 - Haile Selassie is deposed by military leaders after fifty-eight
        years as the ruling monarch of Ethiopia.

1977 - Black South African student and civil rights leader Steven Biko joins
        the ancestors after succumbing to severe physical abuse while in
        police detention, triggering an international outcry.

1980 - Lillian Randolph joins the ancestors at the age of 65. She had been
        a film actress and had starred on television on the "Amos 'n' Andy
        Show" and in the mini-series "Roots".

1984 - Michael Jordan signs a seven-year contract to play basketball with
        the Chicago Bulls.   'Air' Jordan will become an NBA star for the
        Bulls and help make the team a dominant force in the NBA.

1984 - Dwight Gooden, of the New York Mets, sets a rookie strikeout record
        by striking out his 251st batter of the season.  He also leads the
        Mets to a 2-0 shutout over the Pittsburgh Pirates.

1986 - The National Council of Negro Women sponsors its first Black Family
        Reunion at the National Mall in Washington, DC.  The reunion, which
        will grow to encompass dozens of cities and attract over one million
        people annually, is held to celebrate and applaud the traditional
        values, history, and culture of the African American family.

1989 - David Dinkins, Manhattan borough president, wins the New York City's
        Democratic mayoral primary, defeating incumbent Mayor Ed Koch and
        two other candidates on his way to becoming the city's first African
        American mayor.

1992 - Mae C. Jemison becomes the first woman of color to go into space when
        she travels on the space shuttle Endeavour.

1998 - Sammy Sosa of the Chicago Cubs becomes the fourth major league
        baseball player to hit 60 home runs in a single season.

1999 - Serena and Venus Williams (sisters) take home the U.S. Open Women's
        Doubles Championship trophy.  After losing the first set, they
        bounce back to win the remaining two sets against Chandra Rubin of
        the U.S. and Sandrine Testud of France. The Williams sisters are the
        first African-Americans to win a U.S. Open Doubles Championship.

2000 - James Perkins becomes the first African American mayor of Selma,
        Alabama, defeating long-time mayor Joe Smitherman with 60% of the
        vote.  Smitherman had been mayor for thirty six years. He was the
        mayor of Selma in 1965 when sheriff's deputies and state troopers
        attacked hundreds of voting rights marchers on Selma's Edmund Pettus
        Bridge in what became known as "Bloody Sunday."

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