* Today in Black History - September 4 *
1781 - California's second pueblo near San Gabriel, Nuestra Senora la
Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula (Los Angeles, California)
is founded by forty-four settlers, of whom at least twenty-six
were descendants of Africans. Among the settlers of African
descent, according to H.H. Bancroft's authoritative History
of California, were "Joseph Moreno, Mulatto, 22 years old,
wife a Mulattress, five children; Manuel Cameron, Mulatto,
30 years old, wife Mulattress; Antonio Mesa, Negro, 38 years
old, wife Mulattress, six children; Jose Antonio Navarro,
Mestizo, 42 years old, wife, Mulattress, three children;
Basil Rosas, Indian, 68 years old, wife, Mulattress, six
children."
1848 - Louis H. Latimer is born in Chelsea, Massachusetts. A one-
time draftsman and preparer of patents for Alexander Graham
Bell, he will later join the United States Electric Company,
where he will patent a carbon filament for the incandescent
lamp. When he joins the ancestors, he will be eulogized by his
co-workers as a valuable member of the "Edison Pioneers," a
group of men and women who advanced electrical light usage in
the United States.
1865 - Bowie State College (now University) is established in Bowie,
Maryland.
1875 - The Clinton Massacre occurs in Clinton, Mississippi. Twenty to
thirty African Americans are killed over a two-day period.
1908 - Richard Wright, who will become the author of the best-selling
"Native Son," "Uncle Tom's Children," and "Black Boy," is born
near Natchez, Mississippi. Wright will be among the first African
American writers to protest white treatment of African Americans.
1942 - Merald 'Bubba' Knight is born in Atlanta, Georgia. He will become a
singer with his sister Gladys Knight as part of her background group,
The Pips. They will record many songs including "Midnight Train to
Georgia," "Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me," "I Heard It Through
the Grapevine," "Every Beat of My Heart," "Letter Full of Tears," and
"The Way We Were/Try to Remember" medley.
1953 - Lawrence-Hilton Jacobs is born in New York City. He will become an
actor and will star in "Alien Nation," "Rituals," "Roots," "Welcome
Back, Kotter," "Quiet Fire," "L.A. Heat," and "L.A. Vice."
1957 - The governor of Arkansas, Orval Faubus, calls out the National
Guard to stop nine African American students from entering
Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. Three weeks
later, President Dwight Eisenhower sends a force of 1,000 U.S.
Army paratroopers (The 101st Airborne) to Little Rock to guarantee
the peaceful desegregation of the public school.
1960 - Damon Wayans, Jr. is born. He will become an actor/comedian and will
star in "In Living Color," "Major Payne," "Blankman," "Celtic Pride,"
"The Great White Hype" and many others.
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