* Today in Black History - September 9 * 1739 - Led by a slave named Jemmy (Cato), a slave revolt occurs in Stono, South Carolina. Twenty-five whites are killed before the insurrection is put down. 1806 - Sarah Mapps Douglass, abolitionist, is born. 1816 - Rev. John Gregg Fee, Kentucky abolitionist, is born. He will become member of the American Missionary Association, and will found a settlement called "Berea" on land donated to him by an admirer, Cassius Marcellus Clay. It will be later that Fee will be inspired to build a college, adjacent to the donated land - Berea College. 1817 - Captain Paul Cuffe, entrepreneur and civil rights activist, joins the ancestors at 58, in Westport, Masschusetts. Cuffe was a Massachusetts shipbuilder and sea captain. He also was one of the most influential African American freedmen of the eighteenth century. In 1780, Cuffe and six other African Americans refused to pay taxes until they were granted citizenship. Massachusetts gave African Americans who owned property the vote three years later. Although Cuffe became wealthy, he believed that most African Americans would never be completely accepted in white society. In 1816, Cuffe began one of the first experiments in colonizing African Americans in Africa when he brought a group to Sierra Leone. Cuffe's experiment helped inspire the founding of the American Colonization Society later that year. 1823 - Alexander Lucius Twilight, becomes the first African American to earn a baccalaureate degree in the United States, when he graduates from Middlebury College with a BA degree. 1915 - A group of visionary scholars (George Cleveland Hall, W.B. Hartgrove, Alexander L. Jackson, and James E. Stamps) led by Dr. Carter G. Woodson found the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASNLH) in Chicago, Illinois. Dr. Woodson is convinced that among scholars, the role of his own people in American history and in the history of other cultures was being either ignored or misrepresented. Dr. Woodson realizes the need for special research into the neglected past of the Negro. The association is the only organization of its kind concerned with preserving African American history. 1928 - Silvio Cator of Haiti, sets the then long jump record at 26' 0". 1934 - Sonia Sanchez is born in Birmingham, Alabama. She will become a noted poet, playwright, short story writer, and author of children's books. She will be most noted for her poetry volumes "We a BaddDDD People", "A Blues Book for Blue Black Magical Women", and anthologies she will edit including "We Be Word Sorcerers: 25 Stories by Black Americans." 1941 - Otis Redding is born in Dawson, Georgia, the son of a Baptist minister. He will become a rhythm and blues musician and singer and will be best known for his recording of "[Sittin' on] The Dock of the Bay," which will be released after he is killed in a small airplane in December, 1967. Some of his other hits were "I've Been Loving You Too Long", "Respect", and "Try A Little Tenderness." 1942 - Inez Foxx is born in Greensboro, North Carolina. She will become a a rhythm and blues singer and will perform as part of a duuo act with her brother , Charlie. Their biggest hit will be "Mockingbird" in 1963. They will record together until 1967. born. 1942 - Luther Simmons is born. He will become a rhythm and blues singer with the group "Main Ingredient." They will be best known for their hit, "Everybody Plays the Fool." 1945 - Dione LaRue is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She will become a rhythm and blues singer better known as "Dee Dee Sharp." Her first hit will be "It's Mashed Potato Time" in 1962. She will also record "Gravy" [For My Mashed Potatoes], "Ride!", "Do the Bird", and "Slow Twistin' "(with Chubby Checker). 1946 - Billy Preston is born in Houston, Texas. He will become a musician songwriter and singer. His hits will include "Will It Go Round in Circles", "Nothing from Nothing", "Outa-Space", "Get Back" (with The Beatles), and "With You I'm Born Again"(with Syreeta). He also will appear in film: "St. Louis Blues" and play with Little Richard's Band. 1957 - President Eisenhower signs the first civil rights bill passed by Congress since Reconstruction. 1957 - Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth is mobbed when he attempts to enroll his daughters in a "white" Birmingham school. 1957 - Nashville's new Hattie Cotton Elementary School with enrollment of one African American and 388 whites is virtually destroyed by a dynamite blast. 1962 - Two churches are burned near Sasser, Georgia. African American leaders ask the president to stop the "Nazi-like reign of terror in southwest Georgia." 1963 - Alabama Governor George Wallace is served a federal injunction when he orders state police to bar African American students from enrolling in white schools. 1968 - Arthur Ashe becomes the first (and first African American) Men's Singles Tennis Champion of the newly established U.S. Open tennis championships at Forest Hills, New York. 1971 - More than 1,200 inmates at the Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New York gain control of the facility in a well-planned takeover. During the initial violence, 50 correctional officers and civilian employees are beaten and taken hostage. Correctional officer William Quinn receives the roughest beating and is soon freed by the inmates due to the severity of his injuries. Police handling of the takeover will result in the deaths of many inmates and will turn the nation's interest toward the conditions in U.S. penal institutions. 1979 - Robert Guillaume wins an Emmy award for 'Best Actor in a Comedy Series' for his performances in "Soap". 1981 - Vernon E. Jordan resigns as president of the National Urban League and announces plans to join a Washington DC legal firm. He will be succeeded by John E. Jacob, executive vice president of the league. 1984 - Walter Payton, of the Chicago Bears, breaks Jim Brown's combined yardage record -- by reaching 15,517 yards. 1985 - President Reagan orders sanctions against South Africa because of that country's apartheid policies. 1990 - Liberian President Samuel K. Doe is captured and joins the ancestors after being killed by rebel forces. In 1985, he was elected president, but Charles Taylor and followers overthrew his government in 1989, which sparked a seven-year long civil war. ______________________________________________________________ Munirah Chronicle is edited by Brother Mosi Hoj "The TRUTH shall make you free" E-mail: <[log in to unmask]> Archives: <http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/Munirah.html> ______________________________________________________________ To SUBSCRIBE send E-mail to: <[log in to unmask]> In the E-mail body place: Subscribe Munirah Your FULL Name ______________________________________________________________ Munirah(TM) is a trademark of Information Man. Copyright 2002, All Rights Reserved by the Information Man in association with CODE One Communications.