* Today in Black History - September 6 *
1826 - John Brown Russwurm graduates from Bowdoin College. While
many sources consider him to be the first African American
in America to graduate from college, he was preceded by
Edward Jones (B.A. Amherst College - August 23, 1826) and
Alexander Lucius Twilight (B.A. Middlebury College -
1823).
1848 - National Black Convention meets in Cleveland, Ohio with
some seventy delegates. Frederick Douglass is elected
president of the convention.
1865 - Thaddeus Stevens, powerful U.S. congressman, urges
confiscation of estates of Confederate leaders and the
distribution of land to adult freedmen in forty-acre
lots.
1866 - Frederick Douglass becomes the first African American
delegate to a national political convention.
1876 - A race riot occurs in Charleston, South Carolina.
1892 - George "Little Chocolate" Dixon beats Jack Skelly in New
Orleans to win the world featherweight title. While some
African American citizens celebrate for two days, the New
Orleans Times-Democrat says, "It was a mistake to match a
Negro and a white man, to bring the races together on any
terms of equality even in the prize ring."
1905 - The Atlanta Life Insurance Company is established by A.F.
Herndon.
1930 - Leander Jay Shaw, Jr. is born in Salem, Virginia. He will
become a justice of the Florida State Supreme Court in
1983 and, in 1990, the chief justice, a first in Florida
and the second African American chief justice in any
state supreme court.
1966 - A racially motivated civil disturbance occurs in Atlanta,
Georgia.
1967 - President Lyndon B. Johnson names Walter E. Washington,
commissioner and "unofficial" mayor of Washington, DC.
1968 - The Kingdom of Swaziland achieves full independence from
Great Britain as a constitutional monarchy.
1982 - Willie Stargell, of the Pittsburgh Pirates, sees his
uniform, number 8, retired by the Bucs. It is the fourth
Pirate player's uniform to be so honored. The other
three belonged to Roberto Clemente (#21), Honus Wagner
(#33) and Pie Traynor (#20).
1988 - Lee Roy Young becomes the first African American Texas
Ranger in the police force's 165-year history. Young is
a 14-year veteran of the Texas Department of Public
Safety.
1989 - The International Amateur Athletic Federation bans Ben
Johnson of Canada from competition, after he tests
positive for steroids. He is also stripped of all of his
track records.
1989 - The National Party, the governing party of South Africa,
loses nearly a quarter of its parliamentary seats to
far-right and anti-apartheid rivals, its worst setback
in four decades.
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