*	      Today in Black History - September 1         *

1867 - Robert T. Freeman becomes the first African American 
	to graduate from Harvard Dental School.

1875 - White Democrats attacked Republicans at Yazoo City, 
	Mississippi. One white and three African-Americans were 
	killed.

1912 - Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, English-born composer of Hiawatha's 
	Wedding Feast and professor of music at Trinity College of 
	Music in London, joins the ancestors in Croyden, England.  
	Coleridge-Taylor was the most important Black composer of 
	his day and toured the United States three times, where he
	played with Will Marion Cook, Clarence Cameron White, and 
	collaborated with Paul Laurence Dunbar in setting several 
	of his poems to music.

1925 - Rosa Cuthbert (later Guy) is born in Trinidad. She will leave
	Trinidad with her parents for America in 1932. During World 
	War II she will join the American Negro Theatre. She will 
	study theatre and writing at the University of New York. Most
	of her books are about the dependability of family members 
	that care and love each other. She will be one of the founders 
	of The Harlem Writers guild (1950). Her works will include: "Bird 
	at My Window" (1966), "Children of Longing" (1971), "The Friends"
	(1973), "Ruby" (1976), "Edith Jackson" (1978), "The Disappearance"
	(1979), "Mirror of Her Own" (1981), "A Measure of Time (1983), 
	and New Guys Around the Block (1983), Paris, Pee Wee and Big Dog (1984), My Love, My Love, or the Peasant Girl (1985), And I Heard a Bird Sing (1987).  She will become the author of 
	"The Friends," "Ruby," and "Edith Jackson."

1937 - Ron O'Neal is born in Utica, New York.  He will become an 
	actor and will star in movies during the 1970's and be 
	best known for his role in "Superfly." 

1948 - William T. Coleman is appointed by Justice Frankfurter as a 
	clerk to the U.S. Supreme Court, the first African 
	American to hold the position.  A Harvard Law School 
	graduate and Army Air Corps veteran, Coleman will again 
	enter public service, first as president of the NAACP 
	Legal Defense and Education Fund and, in 1975, as 
	Secretary of Transportation under President Gerald Ford.

1970 - Dr. Hugh S. Scott of Washington, DC, becomes the first
	African American superintendent of schools in a major US.
	city.

1971 - The Pittsburgh Pirates field an all African American team 
	in a baseball game against the Philadelphia Phillies.

1973 - George Foreman knocks out Jose Roman in the first round to
	retain his heavyweight title. 

1975 - General Daniel ("Chappie") James Jr. is promoted to the 
	rank of four-star general and named commander-in-chief of
	the North American Air Defense Command.  He is the first 
	African American to achieve this rank.

1977 - Ethel Waters, singer and actress, joins the ancestors in 
	Chatsworth, California at the age of 80.  She was the 
	first African American entertainer to move from vaudeville
	to 'white' entertainment.  She starred in many movies such
	as "Something Special" (1971), "Carib Gold" (1955), "The 
	Member of the Wedding" (1952), "Pinky" (1949), "Cabin in
	the Sky" (1943), "Cairo" (1942), "Tales of Manhattan" 
	(1942), "Black Musical Featurettes, V. 1" (1929),  Short 
	Subjects V. 1" (1929),  and "On With the Show" (1929).  
	She also was in the first network show to feature an 
	African American actress as the star (The Beulah Show-
	1950).

1979 - Hazel W. Johnson becomes the first African American woman 
	to attain general officer rank in American military 
	history. Under her tenure as Chief, the Army Nurse Corps
	continued to improve standards of education and training.
	The Army Nurse Corps Standards of Nursing Practice were 
	published as an official Department of the Army Pamphlet 
	(DA PAM 40-5). She received the Distinguished Service
	Medal, Legion Of Merit, Meritorious Service Medal, and 
	the Army Commendation Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster among 
	her awards and honors.

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