*               Today in Black History - September 23          *

1667 - In Williamsburg, Virginia, a law was passed, barring 
	slaves from obtaining their freedom by converting to 
	Christianity. 

1862 - A draft of Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation is 
	published in Northern Newspapers.

1863 - Mary Church (later Terrell) is born in Memphis, 
	Tennessee. She will become an educator, civil and 
	woman's rights advocate, and U.S. delegate to the 
	International Peace Conference.  She will also be the 
	first African American to serve on the school board in 
	the District of Columbia. She will join the ancestors
	on July 24, 1954.

1926 - John Coltrane, brilliant jazz saxophonist and composer who
	will be considered the father of avant-garde jazz, is 
	born in Hamlet, North Carolina. He will join the ancestors
	on July 17, 1967.

1930 - Ray Charles (Robinson) is born in Albany, Georgia. Blind 
	by the age of six, he will study music and form his own 
	band at the age of 24. A recorded performance at the 
	Newport Jazz Festival in 1958 will establish his career 
	as one of the premier soul singers in the United States.
	Among Charles's achievements will be three Grammys and 
	Kennedy Center honors in 1986. He will join the ancestors 
	on June 10, 2004 after succumbing to liver disease.

1952 - Jersey Joe Walcott, loses his heavyweight title in the 
	13th round, to Rocky Marciano, in Philadelphia 
	Pennsylvania.  Pay Television for sporting events begins
	with the Marciano-Walcott fight, coast to coast, in 49
	theatres in 31 cities. 

1954 - Playwright George Costello Wolfe is born in Frankfort, 
	Kentucky. He will become critically acclaimed for the 
	controversial plays, "The Colored Museum", "Jelly's Last 
	Jam", and "Spunk".
	
1957 - Nine African American students, who had entered Little 
	Rock Central High School in Arkansas, are forced to leave
	because of a white mob outside. 

1961 - President Kennedy names Thurgood Marshall to the United 
	States Circuit Court of Appeals.

1962 - Los Angeles Dodger, Maury Wills, steals record setting 
	base #97 on his way to 104.

1979 - Lou Brock steals record 935th base and becomes the all-
	time major league record holder.

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