*                   Today in Black History - September 9              *

1739 - Led by a slave named Jemmy (Cato), a slave revolt occurs in Stono,
        South Carolina.  Twenty-five whites are killed before the
        insurrection is put down.

1806 - Sarah Mapps Douglass, abolitionist, is born.

1816 - Rev. John Gregg Fee, Kentucky abolitionist, is born.  He will
        become member of the American Missionary Association,  and
        will found a settlement called "Berea" on land donated to him
        by an admirer, Cassius Marcellus Clay.  It will be later that
        Fee will be inspired to build a college, adjacent to the
        donated land - Berea College.

1817 - Captain Paul Cuffe,  entrepreneur and civil rights activist,
        joins the ancestors at 58, in Westport, Masschusetts.  Cuffe was
        a Massachusetts shipbuilder and sea captain.  He also was one
        of the most influential African American freedmen of the
        eighteenth century.  In 1780, Cuffe and six other African
        Americans refused to pay taxes until they were granted
        citizenship.  Massachusetts gave African Americans who owned
        property the vote three years later.  Although Cuffe became
        wealthy, he believed that most African Americans would never
        be completely accepted in white society.  In 1816, Cuffe
        began one of the first experiments in colonizing African
        Americans in Africa when he brought a group to Sierra Leone.
        Cuffe's experiment helped inspire the founding of the
        American Colonization Society later that year.

1823 - Alexander Lucius Twilight, becomes the first African American
        to earn a baccalaureate degree in the United States, when he
        graduates from Middlebury College with a BA degree.

1915 - A group of visionary scholars (George Cleveland Hall, W.B.
        Hartgrove, Alexander L. Jackson, and James E. Stamps) led by
        Dr. Carter G. Woodson found the Association for the Study of
        Negro Life and History (ASNLH) in Chicago, Illinois.    Dr.
        Woodson is convinced that among scholars, the role of his own
        people in American history and in the history of other
        cultures was being either ignored or misrepresented.   Dr.
        Woodson realizes the need for special research into the
        neglected past of the Negro.  The association is the only
        organization of its kind concerned with preserving African
        American history.

1928 - Silvio Cator of Haiti, sets the then long jump record at 26' 0".

1934 - Sonia Sanchez is born in Birmingham, Alabama.  She will become
        a noted poet, playwright, short story writer, and author of
        children's books.  She will be most noted for her poetry
        volumes "We a BaddDDD People", "A Blues Book for Blue Black
        Magical Women", and anthologies she will edit including "We
        Be Word Sorcerers: 25 Stories by Black Americans."

1941 - Otis Redding is born in Dawson, Georgia, the son of a Baptist
        minister.  He will become a rhythm and blues musician and singer
        and will be best known for his recording of "[Sittin' on] The Dock
        of the Bay," which will be released after he is killed in a small
        airplane in December, 1967.   Some of his other hits were "I've
        Been Loving You Too Long", "Respect", and "Try A Little Tenderness."

1942 - Inez Foxx is born in Greensboro, North Carolina.  She will become a
        a rhythm and blues singer and will perform as part of a duuo act
        with her brother , Charlie.  Their biggest hit will be "Mockingbird"
        in 1963.  They will record together until 1967.
        born.

1942 - Luther Simmons is born.  He will become a rhythm and blues singer
        with the group "Main Ingredient."  They will be best known for their
        hit, "Everybody Plays the Fool."

1945 - Dione LaRue is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  She will become
        a rhythm and blues singer better known as "Dee Dee Sharp." Her first
        hit will be "It's Mashed Potato Time" in 1962.  She will also record
        "Gravy" [For My Mashed Potatoes], "Ride!", "Do the Bird", and "Slow
        Twistin' "(with Chubby Checker).

1946 - Billy Preston is born in Houston, Texas.  He will become a musician
        songwriter and singer.  His hits will include "Will It Go Round in
        Circles", "Nothing from Nothing", "Outa-Space", "Get Back" (with The
        Beatles), and "With You I'm Born Again"(with Syreeta).  He also will
        appear in film: "St. Louis Blues" and play with Little Richard's Band.

1957 - President Eisenhower signs the first civil rights bill passed
        by Congress since Reconstruction.

1957 - Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth is mobbed when he attempts to enroll his
        daughters in a  "white" Birmingham school.

1957 - Nashville's new Hattie Cotton Elementary School with enrollment of
        one African American and 388 whites is virtually destroyed by a
        dynamite blast.

1962 - Two churches are burned near Sasser, Georgia.  African American
        leaders ask the president to stop the "Nazi-like reign of terror in
        southwest Georgia."

1963 - Alabama Governor George Wallace is served a federal injunction when
        he orders state police to bar African American students from
        enrolling in white schools.

1968 - Arthur Ashe becomes the first (and first African American) Men's
        Singles Tennis Champion of the newly established U.S. Open tennis
        championships at Forest Hills, New York.

1971 - More than 1,200 inmates at the Attica Correctional Facility in
        upstate New York gain control of the facility in a well-planned
        takeover.  During the initial violence, 50 correctional officers
        and civilian employees are beaten and taken hostage. Correctional
        officer William Quinn receives the roughest beating and is soon
        freed by the inmates due to the severity of his injuries. Police
        handling of the takeover will result in the deaths of many inmates
        and will turn the nation's interest toward the conditions in U.S.
        penal institutions.

1979 - Robert Guillaume wins an Emmy award for 'Best Actor in a Comedy
        Series' for his performances in "Soap".

1981 - Vernon E. Jordan resigns as president of the National Urban League
        and announces plans to join a Washington DC legal firm.  He will
        be succeeded by John E. Jacob, executive vice president of the
        league.

1984 - Walter Payton, of the Chicago Bears, breaks Jim Brown's combined
        yardage record -- by reaching 15,517 yards.

1985 - President Reagan orders sanctions against South Africa because of
        that country's apartheid policies.

1990 - Liberian President Samuel K. Doe is captured and joins the ancestors
        after being killed by rebel forces.  In 1985, he was elected
        president, but Charles Taylor and followers overthrew his government
        in 1989, which sparked a seven-year long civil war.

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