*                  Today in Black History - September 18              *

1850 - Congress passes the Fugitive Slave Act, a part of the Compromise
        of 1850, which allows slaveowners to reclaim slaves who had
        escaped to other states. The act also offers federal officers
        a fee for captured slaves.

1895 - Booker T. Washington makes a speech at the Cotton States and
        International Exposition in Atlanta, Georgia.  Known as the
        "Atlanta Compromise" speech, Washington advocates acceptance
        of a subordinate role for African Americans, espouses peaceful
        coexistence with white Southerners, and calls agitation over
        the question of social equality "the extremist folly."  The
        speech, which reportedly leaves some African American listeners
        in tears and will incur the wrath of W.E.B. Du Bois and others,
        secures Washington's reputation among whites as a successor
        to Frederick Douglass.

1905 - Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, actor, (Jack Benny Show), is born
        in Oakland, California.

1945 - 1000 white students walk out of three Gary, Indiana schools
        to protest integration.  There were similar disturbances in
        Chicago, Illinois and other Northern and Western metropolitan
        areas.

1948 - Dr. Ralph J. Bunche is confirmed by the United Nations Security
        Council as acting United Nations' mediator in Palestine.

1951 - Dr. Benjamin Solomon Carson, Sr., neurosurgeon, is born in
        Detroit, Michigan.  He will graduate from from the University
        of Michigan Medical School in 1977 and will become the first
        African American neurosurgery resident at the Johns Hopkins
        Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland.  He will receive the American
        Black Achievement Award from Ebony and the Paul Harris Fellow
        Award from Rotary International. He will become best known for
        his separation of siamese twins in 1989.

1962 - Rwanda, Burundi, Jamaica & Trinidad are admitted (105th-108th
        countries) to the United Nations.

1964 - Holly Robinson (Peete) , actress ("21 Jump Street", "Hanging
        with Mr. Cooper"), is born.

1967 - Ricky Bell, rhythm-and-blues singer, (Bell Biv Devoe and New
        Edition), is born.

1970 - Rock guitarist Jimi (James Marshall) Hendrix dies at age 27 of
        a drug overdose.  in London.  His "Purple Haze" and "Foxy Lady"
        will become anthems for a generation at war in Vietnam.

1972 - Art Williams becomes the first African American National League
        umpire (Los Angeles vs San Diego).

1980 - Cosmonaut Arnold Tamayo, a Cuban, becomes the first person of
        African descent sent on a mission in space.

1990 - Atlanta, Georgia is selected as the site of the XXV Olympiad
        Summer Games.  Mayor Maynard H. Jackson says the 1996 Summer
        Games will be the "single biggest continuous infusion of
        economic development to Atlanta in the history of the city
        under any circumstances."  It is the second time the city
        hosting the games is led by an African American mayor.

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