AROUND THE REGION
WEEK OF SEPT 7- 13, 2017
Source: Black America Web
SEPT. 7
U.S. Open of the open era, becoming the first black man 1930 – Legendary jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins is born to win the title. in New York City. 1986 – Nobel Peace Prize winner and anti-apartheid activ- SEPT. 10 ist Desmond Tutu becomes the first black Archbishop of 1961 – Jomo Kenyatta, Kenya's first president, returns from exile to lead the country Cape Town, South Africa. 1976 – Mordecai Johnson, the first black president of Howard University, dies in Washington, D.C. SEPT. 8 1957 – Tennis great Althea Gibson becomes the first African-American to win the U.S. National Championships, now known as the U.S. Open. 1986 – "The Oprah Winfrey Show" debuts nationwide, making its namesake host the first black woman with a nationally syndicated talk show.
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1925 – Ossian Sweet, a black Detroit physician, and a handful of armed family and friends defend his newly purchased home in a white neighborhood against a mob trying to force him out. He and his family and friends were ultimately acquitted of murder by an all-white jury in what came to be known as the Sweet Trials. 1934 – Renowned African-American poet Sonia Sanchez is born in Birmingham, Alabama. 1941 – Soul music legend Otis Redding is born in Dawson, Georgia. 1968 – Arthur Ashe wins the first
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1942 – Singer and actress Lola Falana is born in Camden, New Jersey. 1970 – Actress and Howard University alumna Taraji P. Henson, best known for the hit TV show "Empire," is born in Washington, D.C. 1977 – "Roots," the television miniseries based on Alex Haley's 1976 novel, wins 9 awards at the 19th annual Emmys. 1987 – Reggae great Peter Tosh is murdered in Kingston, Jamaica, during a home invasion.
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1913 – Four-time Olympic gold medalist Jesse Owens is born in Oakville, Alabama. 1977 – Steve Biko, famed anti-apartheid activist, dies in police custody in Pretoria, South Africa. 1992 – Astronaut Mae Jemison becomes the first African-American woman to travel in space.
SEPT. 13
1885 – Alain Locke, the first African-American Rhodes Scholar and "Dean" of the Harlem Renaissance, is born in Philadelphia. 1996 – Rap great Tupac Shakur dies in Las Vegas after being shot six days earlier. WI
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