*		Today in Black History - September 14          *

1874 - White Democrats seize the statehouse in a Louisiana coup 
	d'etat. President Grant orders the revolutionaries to 
	disperse, and the rebellion collapses. Twenty-seven 
	persons (sixteen whites and eleven Blacks) are killed in
	battles between the Democrats and Republicans.

1891 - John Adams Hyman joins the ancestors in Washington, DC.  
	He was the first African American congressman from the 
	state of North Carolina.

1921 - Constance Baker Motley is born in New Haven, Connecticut.  
	She will achieve many distinctions in her career, 
	including being the first African American woman elected 
	to the New York Senate in 1964, the first woman Manhattan 
	borough president, and the first African American woman to be 
	named as a federal court judge in 1966. She will later 
	serve as chief judge of the Southern District of New 
	York until she joins the ancestors on September 28, 2005.

1940 - African Americans are allowed to enter all branches of 
	the United States Military Service, when President 
	Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Selective Service Act.

1964 - Leontyne Price and A. Philip Randolph are among the 
	recipients of the Medal of Freedom awarded by President 
	Lyndon B. Johnson.

1970 - One African American is killed and two whites are injured
	in shoot-out between activists and police officers in a 
	New Orleans housing project.

2003 - Yetunde Price, the oldest sister of tennis stars Venus 
	and Serena Williams, joins the ancestors at the age of 
	31 after being killed in a shooting at her place of 
	business.

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