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1818 - The first African American Episcopal priest ordained in the 

            United States, Absalom Jones, joins the ancestors in 

            Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  He was an instrumental force in 

            the development of the early African American church and 

            benevolent society movements. 

        

1882 - Henry Highland Garnet, abolitionist, preacher, diplomat and 

            protest leader, joins the ancestors in Monrovia, Liberia at 

            the age of 66.

 

1892 - The first African American performers, the  World's Fair 

            Colored Opera Company, appear at New  York City's Carnegie 

            Hall less than one year after the hall's opening.   In the 

            company is concert singer Matilda Sissieretta Jones, who will 

            have her solo debut at Carnegie Hall two years later. 

 

1907 - Wendell P. Dabney establishes "The Union."  The Cincinnati, 

            Ohio paper's motto is "For no people can become great without

            being united, for in union, there is strength." 

 

1919 - Eddie Robinson is born.  He will accept the head coaching 

            position in 1941, at the Louisiana Negro Normal and 

            Industrial Institute in Grambling, Louisiana (later named 

            Grambling State University.   Over the next 54 years, he will

            become the winningest college football coach.  On October 7, 

            1995, he will win his 400th game, establishing a record and 

            securing his status as a legend.  Sports Illustrated will 

            place Robinson on the cover of its October 14, 1995 issue, 

            making him the first and only coach of an historically Black

            university to appear on the cover of any major sports 

            publication in the United States. To his credit, he will 

            produce 113 NFL players, including four Pro Football Hall of

            Famers. 

 

1920 - The National Association of Professional Baseball Clubs is 

            founded by Andrew "Rube" Foster.  They will be called the 

            Negro National League.  It will become the first successful 

            African American professional baseball league.  Two other 

            leagues had previously been started, but failed to last more 

            than one season.

 

1923 - The first African American professional basketball team "The  

            Renaissance" is organized by Robert J. Douglas.  It is named 

            after its home court, the Renaissance Casino.  They will 

            play from 1923 to 1939 and have a record of 1,588 wins 

            against 239 losses.  They will become the first African 

            American team in the Basketball Hall of Fame.    

 

1957 - The Southern Leadership Conference is founded at a meeting of

            ministers in New Orleans, Louisiana.  Martin Luther King, Jr.

            is elected its first president.  Later in the year its name 

            will be changed to the Southern Christian Leadership 

            Conference. 

 

1976 - General Murtala Mohammed, head of Nigeria, who came to power 

            in 1975 after General Gowon is ousted, joins the ancestors 

            after being killed in an unsuccessful counter-coup.  His 

            chief of staff, General Olusegun Obasanjo, will assume 

            Mohammed's post and his promise to hand over political power 

            to civilian rule.

 

1996 - Minister Louis Farrakhan, of the Nation of Islam, visits Iran 

            to celebrate its 1979 revolution ousting the Shah.


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