* Today in Black History - September 1 *
1867 - Robert T. Freeman becomes the first African American
to graduate from Harvard Dental School.
1875 - White Democrats attacked Republicans at Yazoo City,
Mississippi. One white and three African Americans
are 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. He will be the most important
Black composer of his day and will tour the United States
three times, where he will play with Will Marion Cook,
Clarence Cameron White, and collaborate with Paul
Laurence Dunbar in setting several of his poems to
music.
1925 - Rosa Cuthbert (later Guy) is born in Diego Martin,
Trinidad. She will leave Trinidad, joining her parents
in America in 1932. During World War II she will join
the American Negro Theatre. She will study theatre and
writing at New York University. Most of her books will be
about the dependability of family members that care and
love each other. She will be one of the founders of The
Harlem Writers guild (1950). Her works will include:
"Bird at My Window" (1966), "Children of Longing" (1971),
"The Friends" (1973), "Ruby" (1976), "Edith Jackson"
(1978), "The Disappearance" (1979), "Mirror of Her Own"
(1981), "A Measure of Time (1983), and "New Guys Around
the Block" (1983), "Paris, Pee Wee and Big Dog" (1984),
"My Love, My Love, or the Peasant Girl" (1985), "And I
Heard a Bird Sing (1987), "The Ups and Downs of Carl
Davis III (1989) and "The Sun, the Sea, A Touch of the
Wind (1995). She will join the ancestors on June 3, 2012.
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." He will join the
ancestors on January 14, 2014 after succumbing to
pancreatic cancer.
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 U.S.
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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