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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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