*		    Today in Black History - August 30        *

1800 - Jack Bowler and Coachman Gabriel Prosser's plans for a 
	slave revolt in Richmond, Virginia, are betrayed by a 
	pair of house slaves attempting to save their master.  
	Prosser's plan, which involved over 1,100 slaves, would
	have resulted in the death of all slave-owning whites, 
	but would have spared Quakers, Frenchmen, elderly women,
	and children.

1838 - The first African American magazine "Mirror of Freedom",
	begins publication in New York City by abolitionist 
	David Ruggles.

1843 - The Liberty Party has the first African American 
	participation in a national political convention.  
	Samuel R. Ward leads the convention in prayer -- Henry 
	Highland Garnet, a twenty-seven-year-old Presbyterian 
	pastor who calls for a slave revolt and a general slave 
	strike.  Amos G. Beman of New Haven, Connecticut is 
	elected president of the convention.

1856 - Wilberforce University is established in Xenia, Ohio under
	the auspices of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  In 1863,
	the university was transferred to the African Methodist 
	Episcopal (AME) Church.

1861 - General John C. Fremont issues an order confiscating the 
	property of Confederates and emancipating their slaves.
	The order causes wide-spread protest and is revoked by 
	President Lincoln.

1892 - S. R. Scottron patents a curtain rod.

1901 - Roy Wilkins is born in St. Louis, Missouri. He will become
	a civil rights leader, assistant executive secretary of 
	the NAACP under Walter White and editor of the Crisis 
	Magazine for 15 years.  He will become Executive Secretary
	of the NAACP in 1955, a post he will hold for 22 years.  
	During his tenure, he will be a champion of civil rights 
	committed to using constitutional arguments to help obtain
	full citizenship rights for all African Americans.

1931 - Carrie Saxon Perry is born in Hartford, Connecticut. In 
	1987, she will be elected mayor of Hartford, becoming the 
	first African American mayor of a major eastern United 
	States city.

1953 - Robert Parish is born in Shreveport, Louisiana.  He will 
	become a professional basketballplayer. Playing 14 years 
	with the Boston Celtics from 1980 to 1994, he will win 
	three NBA titles (1981, 1984 and 1986) teaming with 
	legendary small forward Larry Bird, and, from 1983 to 1992
	with Kevin McHale. The trio will be regarded by many as the
	best frontcourt in NBA history.

1956 - A white mob prevents the enrollment of blacks at Mansfield
	High School in Texas.

1961 - James Benton Parsons is confirmed as the first African 
	American judge of a United States District Court in the 
	continental United States (Northern Illinois).  He had 
	been appointed by President John F. Kennedy on April 18, 
	1961.

1967 - Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the first African 
	American justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.  He had been 
	appointed by President Lyndon Johnson on June 13, 1967.

1969 - Racially motivated civil disturbances occur in Fort 
	Lauderdale, Florida.

1983 - Lt. Colonel Guion S. Bluford is the first African American
	in space when he serves as a mission specialist on the 
	Challenger space shuttle. The space shuttle, launched 
	from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, stayed in orbit 
	almost six days.  This was the Challenger's third flight 
	into space.

1987 - Ben Johnson of Canada runs 100 meters in world record time 
	of 9.83 seconds.

1990 - Ken Griffey & Ken Griffey, Jr. become the first father & 
	son to play on the same professional sports team (Seattle 
	Mariners).  Both single in the first inning.

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