WEEK OF SEPT 10 TO SEPT 16
Black Facts Sept. 10 1913 - Cleveland Call & Post established. 1956 - Louisville, Kentucky public schools are integrated. 1961 - Jomo Kenyatta returns to Kenya from exile to lead his country. 1962 - Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black vacated an order of a lower court, ruling that the University of Mississippi had to admit James H. Meredith, a Black Air Force veteran whose application for admission had been on file and in the courts for 14 months. Sept. 11 1999 - Serena Williams is ranked the No. 1 tennis player in the world, and it’s a title she has earned since she went pro in 1995. While she holds several titles, one of her biggest accomplishments came on Sept. 11, 1999, when she became the first African-American woman to win the U.S. Open at the age of 17, after Althea Gibson in 1958.
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Sept. 12 1913 - Track and field athletic legend Jesse Owens is born on this day in Oakville, Alabama. Owens would achieve international fame when he won four gold medals at the 1936 Summer Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany. His feat helped undermine Adolph Hitler’s myth of Aryan or white superiority. 1943 - Dancer Lola Falana was born. 1947 - First Black baseball player in the major leagues, Jackie Robinson, named National League Rookie of the Year. 1977 - One of the greatest unsung heroes of the struggle against the then white-ruled South African system of racial suppression known as apartheid is murdered on this day by South African law enforcement officials. Stephen Bantu Biko was a leader of the country’s Black Consciousness Movement. He believed that one of the most destructive attitudes undermining Black progress throughout the world stemmed from the fact that Blacks weren’t truly proud to be Black. 1992 - Dr. Mae Jemison becomes the first African-American woman in space when she was launched from the Kennedy Space Center on this day as part of a joint U.S.-Japanese mission. Since resigning from NASA, the multi-talented Jemison has started a company which aims to improve health care in Africa. In addition to English, Jemison speaks Russian, Japanese and the East African language of Swahili. Sept. 13 1926 - Andrew Felton Brimmer, economist, academic, and the first African American to serve as a governor of the Federal Reserve System, was born in Newellton, Louisiana. 1948 - Nell Carter, singer and film, stage, and television actress, was born Nell Ruth Hardy in Birmingham, Alabama. 1953 - IyanlaVanzant, lawyer, writer, and lecturer, was born Rhoda Harris in Brooklyn, New York. 1962 - In an event demonstrating the tenacity of racism, especially in the South, Mississippi Gov. Ross Barnett pledged to defy the federal government and block the court ordered admission of a Black man – James Meredith – to
the University of Mississippi. 1964 - Tavis Smiley, talk show host, author, and entrepreneur, was born in Gulfport, Mississippi, but raised in Kokomo, Indiana. 1996 - Tupac Amaru Shakur, hip-hop rapper and actor, died. Shakur was born June 16, 1971 in New York City and was named after Tupac Amaru II, a Peruvian revolutionary. Sept. 14 1921 - Constance Baker Motley, hall of fame civil rights activist, lawyer and judge, was born in New Haven, Connecticut. 1964 - Mary Violet Leontyne Price and Asa Philip Randolph received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, from President Lyndon B. Johnson. Sept. 15 1963 - Four Black girls, Addie Mae Collins, Carole Robertson, Cynthia Wesley and Denise McNair, were killed in the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, after a member of the Ku Klux Klan detonated a bomb under the steps of the church. Sept. 16 1925 - Blues great Riley “B.B.” King was born in Itta Benna, Mississippi. 1933 - The movie “Emperor Jones” is released on this day by United Artists. It starred social activist Paul Robeson as Brutus Jones. It was the first Hollywood film with a Black leading man and a white supporting cast. 1940 – The Burke-Wadsworth Act is passed by Congress by wide margins in both houses. And, the first peacetime draft in the history of the U.S. is imposed. Selective Service was born. Three years later, Blacks are allowed for the first time to enter all branches of the U.S. military. 1971 - Six Klansmen arrested for the bombing of 10 school buses in Pontiac, Michigan. 1990 - Keenan Ivory Wayans’ “In Living Color” television show wins an Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series. Sept. 17 1787 - U.S. Constitution is approved with three clauses protecting slavery. 1861 - Hampton Institute – known today as Hampton University – is founded. It’s now one of the nation’s leading predominately Black educational institutions. 1970 - The Flip Wilson Show premieres on NBC prime time. 1983 - Vanessa Williams is crowned the first African-American Miss America Nell Carter
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