*       Today in Black History - September 8            *

1866 - Charles Harrison Mason is born on the Prior Farm near Memphis,
        Tennessee.  He will be inspired by the autobiography of
        evangelist Amanda Berry Smith in 1893, and will found and
        organize the "Church of God in Christ," in Memphis, Tennessee
        in 1907.

1875 - The governor of Mississippi requests federal troops to protect
        African American voters. Attorney General Edward Pierrepont
        refuses the request and says "the whole public are tired of
        these annual autumnal outbreaks in the South..."

1925 - Ossian Sweet, a prominent Detroit doctor, is arrested on murder
        charges after shots are fired into a mob in front of the Sweet
        home in a previously all-white area.  Sweet is defended by
        Clarence Darrow, who wins an acquittal in the second trial.

1940 - Willie Tyler is born in Red Level, Alabama.  He will become a
        well known ventriloquist along with his wooden partner, Lester.

1956 - Maurice Cheeks is born.  He will become a professional basketball
        player and will play guard for the New York Knicks and the
        Philadelphia '76ers.

1957 - Tennis champion, Althea Gibson, becomes the first African
        American athlete to win a U.S. national tennis championship.

1965 - Dorothy Dandridge, nominated for an Oscar for her performance
        in "Carmen Jones," joins the ancestors at the age of 41 in
        Hollywood, California.

1968 - Black Panther Huey Newton is convicted of voluntary manslaughter
        in the fatal shooting of an Oakland policeman.  He will later
        begin a 2 to l5-year jail sentence.

1968 - Saundra Williams is crowned the first Miss Black America in a
        contest held exclusively for African American women in Atlantic
        City, New Jersey.

1973 - Hank Aaron sets the record for most Home Runs in 1 league (709).

1975 - The city of Boston begins court ordered citywide busing of public
        schools amid scattered incidents of violence.

1981 - Roy Wilkins, longtime and second executive director of the NAACP,
        joins the ancestors.

1990 - Marjorie Judith Vincent of Illinois is selected as Miss America
        in Atlantic City, New Jersey.  The Haitian native, a third-year
        law student at Duke University, is the fourth woman of African
        descent to become Miss America.

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