*               Today in Black History - October 13             *

1831 - Jo Anderson, a slave, helps invent the grain harvester reaper.

1876 - Meharry Medical College, formally opens at Central Tennessee
        College.

1902 - Arna Bontemps is born in Alexandria, Louisiana.  He will become
        a prolific poet, librarian, and author of historical and
        juvenile fiction.  Among his best-known works will be "God
        Sends Sunday" and "Black Thunder", the juvenile books "We Have
        Tomorrow" and "The Story of the Negro", and "American Negro
        Poetry", which he edited.

1906 - J. Saunders Redding is born in Wilmington, Delaware.  He will
        become a literary and social critic and author of non-fiction
        works on the African American experience, such as "To Make a
        Poet Black", "On Being Negro in America", and "Cavalcade:
        Negro American Writing from 1760 to the Present."

1925 - Garland Anderson's "Appearances" opens at the Frolic Theatre
        on Broadway.  It is the first full-length Broadway play by an
        African American.

1979 - Clarence Muse dies in Perris, California at the age of 90.  He
        was a pioneer film and stage actor who appeared in 219 films.
        His first film was the second talking movie ever made.

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