*                Today in Black History - September 15            *

1830 - The first National Negro Convention begins in Philadelphia,
        Pennsylvania.

1876 - White terrorists attack Republicans in Ellenton, South Carolina.
        Two whites and thirty-nine African Americans are killed.

1890 - Claude McKay is born in Sunnyville, Jamaica.  Emigrating to the
        United States in 1912, he will be come a poet and winner of
        the 1928 Harmon Gold Medal Award for Literature.  Author of
        the influential poetry collection "Harlem Shadows", he will
        also be famous for the poems "The Lynching," "White Houses,"
        and "If We Must Die," which will be used by Winston Churchill
        as a rallying cry during World War II.

1898 - The National Afro-American Council is founded in Rochester, New
        York.  Bishop Alexander Walters of the AME Zion Church is
        elected president.  The organization proposes a program of
        assertion and protest.

1923 - The governor of Oklahoma declares that Oklahoma is in a "state
        of virtual rebellion and insurrection" because of Ku Klux Klan
        activities.  Martial law is declared.

1924 - Bobby Short, singer/pianist (long-time performer at the Carlisle
        Hotel in New York City), is born.

1928 - Julian Edwin Adderly is born in Tampa, Florida.  He will be
        best known as "Cannonball" Adderly, a jazz saxophonist who
        will play with Miles Davis as well as lead his own band with
        brother Nat Adderly and musicians such as Yusef Lateef and
        George Duke.

1943 - Actor and activist,  Paul Robeson acts in the 296th performance
        of "Othello" at the Shubert Theatre in New York City.

1963 - Four African American schoolgirls - Addie Collins, Denise McNair,
        Carol Robertson and Cynthia Wesley - are killed in a bombing at
        the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama.  It
        is an act of violence that galvanizes the civil rights movement.

1964 - Rev. K.L. Buford and Dr. Stanley Smith are elected to the
        Tuskegee City Council and become the first African American
        elected officials in Alabama in the twentieth century.

1969 - Large-scale racial disorders are reported in Hartford,
        Connecticut.  Five hundred persons are arrested and scores are
        injured.

1978 - Muhammad Ali wins the world heavyweight boxing championship for a
        record third time by defeating Leon Spinks in New Orleans,
        Louisiana.

1987 - Boxer, Thomas "Hit Man" Hearns, becomes the first African
        American to win boxing titles in five different weight classes.

1991 - San Diego State freshman, Marshall Faulk, sets the NCAA single
        game rushing record of 386 yards.

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