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* Today in Black History - October 8 *
1775 - A council of general officers decides to bar slaves and free African
Americans from serving in the Continental Army.
1930 - Faith Ringgold is born in New York City. She will become a multimedia
artist whose paintings, face masks, fabric and soft sculptures, and
quilts will earn her praise for her reaffirmation of African
American women's values and unique perspective.
1941 - Rev. Jesse L. Jackson is born in Greenville, South Carolina. He
will be a civil rights leader and founder of Operation PUSH (People
United to Save Humanity) in 1971, an organization that will focus
attention on the economic disparity between whites and African
Americans. In 1988, he will be a candidate for the Democratic
presidential nomination.
1950 - Robert "Kool" Bell is born. He will become a rhythm and blues singer
and will become the leader of his own group, "Kool & the Gang."
1963 - The Sultan of Zanzibar cedes his mainland possessions to Kenya.
1969 - Police officers and African Americans exchange sniper fire on
Chicago's West Side. One youth is killed and nine policemen are
injured.
1992 - The Nobel Prize for literature is awarded to West Indies poet, Derek
Walcott.
1993 - The U.N. General Assembly lifted almost all its remaining economic
sanctions against South Africa, begun in the 1960s and built up in
subsequent years because of Pretoria's policy of racial apartheid.
1999 - Laila Ali, the 21-year-old daughter of Muhammad Ali, makes her
professional boxing debut by knocking out opponent April Fowler 31
seconds after the opening bell in Verona, New York.
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