* Today in Black History - September 1 *
1867 - Robert T. Freeman becomes the first African American person to
graduate from Harvard Dental School.
1875 - White Democrats attacked Republicans at Yazoo City, Mississippi.
One white and three African-Americans were killed.
1912 - Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, English-born composer of Hiawatha's
Wedding Feast and professor of music at Trinity College of
Music in London, joins the ancestors in Croyden, England.
Coleridge-Taylor was the most important black composer of his
day and toured the United States three times, where he played
with Will Marion Cook, Clarence Cameron White, and collaborated
with Paul Laurence Dunbar in setting several of his poems to
music.
1925 - Rosa Guy is born in Trinidad. She will become the author of
"The Friends," "Ruby," and "Edith Jackson."
1937 - Ron O'Neal is born in Utica, New York. He will become an actor
and will star in movies during the 1970's and be best known for
his role in "Superfly."
1948 - William T. Coleman is appointed by Justice Frankfurter as a
clerk to the U.S. Supreme Court, the first African American to
hold the position. A Harvard Law School graduate and Army Air
Corps veteran, Coleman will again enter public service, first
as president of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund and,
in 1975, as Secretary of Transportation under President Gerald
Ford.
1970 - Dr. Hugh S. Scott of Washington, DC, becomes the first African
American superintendent of schools in a major US. city.
1971 - The Pittsburgh Pirates field an all African American team in a
baseball game against the Philadelphia Phillies.
1973 - George Foreman knocks out Jose Roman in the first round to retain
his heavyweight title.
1975 - General Daniel ("Chappie") James Jr. is promoted to the rank of
four-star general and named commander-in-chief of the North
American Air Defense Command. He is the first African American
to achieve this rank.
1977 - Ethel Waters, singer and actress, joins the ancestors in Chatsworth,
California at the age of 80. She was the first African American
entertainer to move from vaudeville to 'white' entertainment. She
starred in many movies such as "Something Special" (1971), "Carib
Gold" (1955), "The Member of the Wedding" (1952), "Pinky" (1949),
"Cabin in the Sky" (1943), "Cairo" (1942), "Tales of Manhattan"
(1942), "Black Musical Featurettes, V. 1" (1929), Short Subjects
V. 1" (1929), and "On With the Show" (1929). She also was in the
first network show to feature an African American actress as the
star (The Beulah Show-1950).
1979 - Hazel W. Johnson becomes the first African American woman to attain
general officer rank in American military history. Under her tenure
as Chief, the Army Nurse Corps continued to improve standards of
education and training. The Army Nurse Corps Standards of Nursing
Practice were published as an official Department of the Army
Pamphlet (DA PAM 40-5). She received the Distinguished Service
Medal, Legion Of Merit, Meritorious Service Medal, and the Army
Commendation Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster among her awards and honors.
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