* Today in Black History - September 27 *
1822 - Hiram R. Revels, is born free in Fayetteville, North Carolina.
He will become the first African American U.S. Senator, elected
from Mississippi.
1862 - The First Louisiana Native Guards, the first African American
regiment to receive official recognition, is mustered into the
Union army. The Regiment is composed of free African Americans
from the New Orleans area.
1867 - Louisiana voters endorse the constitutional convention and elect
delegates in the first election under The Reconstruction Acts.
The vote was 75,000 for the convention and 4,000 against.
1875 - Branch Normal College opens in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. A segregated
unit of the state university, the college is established by Joseph
C. Corbin.
1876 - Edward Mitchell Bannister wins a bronze medal for his painting
"Under the Oaks" at the American Centennial Exposition in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The award to Bannister will cause
controversy among whites who think African Americans incapable
of artistic excellence.
1877 - John Mercer Langston is named Minister to Haiti.
1934 - Greg Morris is born in Cleveland, Ohio. He will come to Hollywood
in the early 1960s to become an actor after some minor stage
experience in Seattle. He will have guest roles on such series as
"Dr. Kildare," "The Dick Van Dyke Show" and "The Twilight Zone"
before being cast in "Mission: Impossible." He will be one of the
first African American actors to star in a hit series during the
1960s, playing Barney Collier, the quiet, efficient electronics
expert on "Mission: Impossible," which ran from 1966 to 1973. In
1979, he will go to Las Vegas to film the television series "Vega$,"
in which he plays Lt. David Nelson. He will like the city so much
he will decide to make it his home. He will succumb to cancer there
in 1996.
1936 - Don Cornelius is born. He will become the creator, producer, and host
of the TV show, "Soul Train" in 1970. The show will become the
longest running program originally produced for first-run syndication
in the entire history of television. The show s resounding success
will position it as the cornerstone of the Soul Train franchise
which includes the annual specials: "Soul Train Music Awards," the
"Soul Train Lady of Soul Awards" and the "Soul Train Christmas
Starfest."
1940 - African American leaders protest discrimination in the U.S.
Armed Forces and war industries at a White House meeting with
President Roosevelt.
1944 - Stephanie Pogue is born in Shelby, North Carolina. She will
become an artist and art professor whose works will be
collected by New York City's Whitney Museum of American Art
and the Studio Museum of Harlem while she will exhibit widely
in the United States, Europe, Japan, and South America.
1950 - Heavyweight champion Ezzard Charles defeats Joe Louis.
1954 - Public school integration begins in Washington, DC and
Baltimore, MD.
1961 - Sierre Leone becomes the 100th member of the United Nations.
1967 - Washington, DC's Anacostia Museum, dedicated to informing the
community of the contributions of African Americans to United
States social, political and cultural history, opens its doors
to the public.
1988 - Several athletes, among them black Canadian sprinter Ben
Johnson, are expelled from the Olympic Games for anabolic
steroid use. Johnson's gold medal, won in the 100-meter dash,
is awarded to African American Carl Lewis, the second-place
finisher.
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