*                   Today in Black History - September 10             *

1847 - John Roy Lynch is born a slave in Concordia Parish, Louisiana.
        Becoming free during the American Civil War, he will settle in
        Natchez, Mississippi.  There he will learn the photography
        business, attend night school, and enter public life in 1869
        as justice of the peace for Natchez county.  In November, 1869
        Lynch will be elected to the Mississippi House of Representatives,
        and reelected in 1871.  Although blacks never will be in the
        majority in the Mississippi legislature, Lynch will be chosen
        speaker of the House in 1872.   In 1884 he will become the first
        African American to preside over a national convention of a major
        U.S. political party and deliver the keynote address, when he was
        appointed temporary chairman.  In his book, "The Facts of
        Reconstruction" (1913), Lynch will attempt to dispel the erroneous
        notion that Southern state governments after the Civil War were
        under the control of blacks.

1886 - Poet Georgia Douglas Johnson is born in Atlanta, Georgia. Among
        her books will be "Heart of a Woman", "Bronze", "An Autumn Love
        Cycle", and "Share My Love".  She will be anthologized in Arna
        Bontemps's "American Negro Poetry" and Davis and Lee's "Negro
        Caravan," among others.  Her home in Washington, DC, will be
        the center for African American literary gatherings.

1913 - George W. Buckner, a physician from Indiana, is named minister
        to Liberia.

1913 - The Cleveland Call & Post newspaper is established.

1930 - Charles E. Mitchell, certified public accountant and banker from
        West Virginia, is named minister to Liberia.

1940 - Roy Ayers is born in Los Angeles, California.  In high school Ayers
        will form his first group, the Latin Lyrics, and in the early 60s
        will begin working professionally with flautist/saxophonist Curtis
        Amy.  He will become a popular jazz vibraphonist and vocalist,
        reaching the peak of his commercial popularity during the mid-70s
        and early 80s.

1948 - Robert "Bob" Lanier is born in Buffalo, New York.  He will become
        a professional basketball player and will be a NBA center for 14
        years (10 years with the Detroit Pistons and 4 years with the
        Milwaukee Bucks).  He will be an eight-time NBA All-Star and will
        be elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1991.

1956 - Louisville, Kentucky integrates its public school system.

1960 - Running barefoot, Ethiopian Abebe Bikila wins the marathon at
        the Rome Olympic Games.

1961 - Jomo Kenyatta returns to Kenya from exile to lead his country.

1962 - Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black vacates an order of a lower
        court, ruling that the University of Mississippi had to admit
        James H. Meredith, an African American Air Force veteran whose
        application for admission had been on file and in the courts for
        fourteen months.

1963 - 20 African American students enter public schools in Birmingham,
        Tuskegee and Mobile, Alabama, following a standoff between federal
        authorities and Governor George C. Wallace.

1965 - Father Divine joins the ancestors in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
        Divine, born George Baker, was the founder of the Peace Mission, a
        religious group whose followers worshiped Divine as God incarnate
        on earth.

1972 - Gayle Sayers, of the Chicago Bears, retires from pro football.

1973 - A commemorative stamp of Henry Ossawa Tanner is issued by the
        U.S. Postal Service.  Part of its American Arts issue, the stamp
        celebrates the work and accomplishments of Tanner, the first
        African American artist elected to the National Academy of
        Design.

1973 - Muhammad Ali defeats Ken Norton in a championship heavyweight
        boxing match in Los Angeles -- and avenges a loss to Norton the
        previous March in San Diego.

1974 - Guinea-Bissau gains independence from Portugal.

1974 - Lou Brock, of the St. Louis Cardinals, breaks Maury Wills' major
        league record for stolen bases in a season.  'Lighting' Lou
        Brock steals his 105th base on his way to a career total of
        938 stolen bases, a record which will be broken by Rickey
        Henderson.

1976 - Mordecai Johnson, the first African American president of Howard
        University, joins the ancestors at age 86.

1986 - Sprinter, Evelyn Ashford is defeated for the first time in eight
        years.  Ashford loses to Valerie Brisco-Hooks in the 200-meter
        run held in Rome, Italy.

2000 - At The 52nd Annual Primetime Emmy awards the following quotes were
        made as Charles Dutton and Halle Berry accepted their respective
        awards - "There goes my acting career." - Charles S. Dutton,
        accepting as outstanding director of a miniseries or movie for
        HBO's "The Corner." - "Wherever Dorothy Dandridge is right now,
        I know she is standing tall and proud and smiling." - Halle Berry,
        accepting a best actress Emmy for the HBO movie "Introducing
        Dorothy Dandridge."

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