TODAY IN BLACK HISTORY—Sept. 14th

September 14, 1921—Constance Baker Motley, first African American to be appointed as a federal judge, is born. 

http://www.answers.com/topic/constance-baker-motley

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TODAY IN BLACK HISTORY—Sept. 13th

September 12, 1885—Alain L. Locke, African-American writer, educator, philosopher and patron of the arts is born. A chief cultural architect of the Harlem Renaissance, he died in 1954.

September 13, 1881—Lewis Latimer patents an electric lamp with a carbon filament.

            

TODAY IN BLACK HISTORY—Sept. 12th Mae Jemison

September 12, 1992— Mae C. Jemison becomes the first African-American woman to travel in space.

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TODAY IN BLACK HISTORY—Sept. 11th

September 11, 1959—"Duke" Ellington won Spingarn Medal for his musical Achievements.

Read more about him in AFRO-BETS Book of Black Heroes from A to Z, coming from Just Us Books in October, 2012.

http://www.dukeellington.com/ 

TODAY IN BLACK HISTORY—Sept. 10th

September 10, 1884—African-American Congressman John R. Lynch presides over the Republican National Convention.

Read more about the life and works of Congressman Lynch online at the African American Registry.
http://www.aaregistry.org/historic_events/view/john-r-lynch-black-congressman-magnolia-state

TODAY IN BLACK HISTORY—Sept. 9th

September 9, 1915—Association for the Study of Negro Life and History is founded by Carter G Woodson. 

Read more about Dr. Woodson's life and work.http://www.asalh.org/woodsonbiosketch.html 

TODAY IN BLACK HISTORY—Sept. 8th

September 8, 1981—Roy Wilkins, second Executive Director of NAACP, dies. He was one of the leading figures of the Civil Rights Movement.

http://www.google.com/imgres?hl=en&sa=X&biw=1280&bih=762&tbm=isch&prmd=imvnso&tbnid=zNnTtCah_DfE-M:&imgrefurl=http://www.mnhs.org/library/tips/history_topics/129wilkins.htm&docid=Zw4RUfWHspYwTM&imgurl=http://www.mnhs.org/library/tips/history_topics/images/129image.jpg&w=200&h=306&ei=pC9LULXKLqn00gHeyoD4CQ&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=509&vpy=122&dur=3307&hovh=244&hovw=160&tx=92&ty=231&sig=113303348124592596034&page=1&tbnh=130&tbnw=85&start=0&ndsp=28&ved=1t:429,r:2,s:0,i:82

TODAY IN BLACK HISTORY—Sept. 7th

September 7, 1954—Public schools in Washington, DC and Baltimore are integrated.

http://blogs.loc.gov/picturethis/2012/05/brown-v-board-of-education-getting-the-picture-one-year-later/ 

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TODAY IN BLACK HISTORY—Sept. 6th

September 6, 1848—National Black Convention meets in Cleveland with some seventy delegates. Frederick Douglass was elected president of the convention.John Mercer Langston was also a key player in the convention.

Read more about John Mercer Langston

http://www.oberlin.edu/external/EOG/OYTT-images/JMLangston.html

TODAY IN BLACK HISTORY—Sept. 5th

September 5, 1895—George Washington Murray is elected to Congress from South Carolina.

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TODAY IN BLACK HISTORY

September 4, 1908—Richard Wright, noted author of such classics as Native Son and Black Boy, is born.

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Richard_Wright.jpg/220px-Richard_Wright.jpg&imgrefurl=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Wright_%28author%29&h=276&w=220&sz=15&tbnid=Ph2sQ-EpHnpsDM:&tbnh=90&tbnw=72&zoom=1&usg=__Ha111IMaFo2gNsBjUIN2YhztIug=&docid=nFPBTO-VqHcb_M&hl=en&sa=X&ei=FiFNUISFIeTq0gGPwYHYAw&sqi=2&ved=0CDUQ9QEwAg&dur=2944 

September 4, 1848—Lewis H Latimer, inventor and engineer, is born.

http://invention.smithsonian.org/centerpieces/ilives/latimer/latimer.html

TODAY IN BLACK HISTORY—Sept. 3rd

September 3, 1838—Frederick Douglass escapes from slavery disguised as a sailor.

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TODAY IN BLACK HISTORY

September 2, 1766—Abolitionist, inventor, entrepreneur, James Forten is born in Philadelphia, PA.

http://www.projectblackman.com/GreatBlackMenInHistory.aspx?notablePersonId=46

September 1, 1867—Robert T. Freeman becomes the first Black to graduate from Harvard University Dental School.