*                   Today in Black History - September 19            *

1865 - Atlanta University is founded.

1868 - White Democrats attack demonstrators, who are marching from Albany
        to Camilla, Georgia, and kill nine African Americans. Several
        whites are wounded.

1931 - Benjamin Franklin Peay is born in Camden, South Carolina.  He will
        become a rhythm and blues singer better known as Brook Benton. He
        will amass 16 gold records and be best known for the songs "A Rainy
        Night in Georgia" and "It's Just a Matter of Time."

1945 - Freda Payne is born in Detroit, Michigan.  She will become a singer
        whose hits will include "Band of Gold" in 1970.

1947 - Larry Brown is born.  He will become a Washington Redskins' running
        back and the third NFL player to rush over 4,000 yards in his first
        four professional seasons.

1956 - The first international conference of Black Writers & Artists meets
        at the Sorbonne, in Paris, France.

1965 - Debbye Turner is born.  She will become Miss America in 1990.

1981 - More than 300,000 demonstrators from labor and civil rights
        organizations protest the social policies of the Reagan
        administration in a Solidarity Day march in Washington, DC.

1989 - Gordon Parks's film "The Learning Tree" is selected among the first
        films to be registered by the National Film Registry of the Library
        of Congress.  The National Film Registry was formed by an act of
        Congress the previous year to recognize films that are "culturally,
        historically, or aesthetically significant."  Parks's 1969 movie
        joins other classic films such as "Casablanca," "Gone With the Wind,"
        and "The Wizard of Oz."

1989 - The first issue of Emerge magazine goes on sale.  Emerge, founded by
        Wilmer C. Ames, Jr., covers domestic and international news and
        issues from an African American perspective.

1994 - U.S. troops peacefully enter Haiti to enforce the return of exiled
        President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

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