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1818 - The first African American Episcopal priest ordained in the
United States, Absalom Jones, joins the ancestors in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was an instrumental force in
the development of the early African American church and
benevolent society movements.
1882 - Henry Highland Garnet, abolitionist, preacher, diplomat and
protest leader, joins the ancestors in Monrovia, Liberia at
the age of 66.
1892 - The first African American performers, the World's Fair
Colored Opera Company, appear at New York City's Carnegie
Hall less than one year after the hall's opening. In the
company is concert singer Matilda Sissieretta Jones, who will
have her solo debut at Carnegie Hall two years later.
1907 - Wendell P. Dabney establishes "The Union." The Cincinnati,
Ohio paper's motto is "For no people can become great without
being united, for in union, there is strength."
1919 - Eddie Robinson is born in Jackson, Louisiana. He will accept
the head coaching position in 1941, at the Louisiana Negro
Normal and Industrial Institute in Grambling, Louisiana
(later named Grambling State University). Over the next 54
years, he will become the winningest college football coach.
On October 7, 1995, he will win his 400th game, establishing
a record and securing his status as a legend. Sports
Illustrated will place Robinson on the cover of its October
14, 1995 issue, making him the first and only coach of an
historically Black university to appear on the cover of any
major sports publication in the United States. To his credit,
he will produce 113 NFL players, including four Pro Football
Hall of Famers. He will join the ancestors on April 3, 2007.
1920 - The National Association of Professional Baseball Clubs is
founded by Andrew "Rube" Foster. They will be called the
Negro National League. It will become the first successful
African American professional baseball league. Two other
leagues had previously been started, but failed to last more
than one season.
1923 - The first African American professional basketball team "The
Renaissance" is organized by Robert J. Douglas. It is named
after its home court, the Renaissance Casino. They will
play from 1923 to 1939 and have a record of 1,588 wins
against 239 losses. They will become the first African
American team inducted in the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame.
1946 - After being honorably discharged from the United States Army,
Isaac Woodard, Jr. is attacked while still in uniform by
Batesburg, South Carolina police over a dispute with a bus driver
over the use of the restroom. The attack and his injuries will
spark national outrage and galvanize the civil rights movement in
the United States. The attack left him completely and permanently
blind. Due to South Carolina's reluctance to pursue the case,
President Harry S. Truman will order a federal investigation. The
sheriff will be indicted and go to trial in federal court in
South Carolina, where he is acquitted by an all-white jury.
Such miscarriages of justice by state governments will influence
a move towards civil rights initiatives at the federal level.
President Truman will subsequently establish a national interracial
commission, make a historic speech to the NAACP and the nation in
June 1947 in which he will describe civil rights as a moral
priority. He will submit a civil rights bill to Congress in February,
1948, and issue Executive Orders 9980 and 9981 on June 26, 1948,
desegregating the armed forces and the federal government.
1957 - The Southern Leadership Conference is founded at a meeting of
ministers in New Orleans, Louisiana. Martin Luther King, Jr.
is elected its first president. Later in the year, its name
will be changed to the Southern Christian Leadership
Conference.
1974 - James 'Cool Papa' Bell is named to baseball's Hall of Fame.
1976 - General Murtala Mohammed, head of Nigeria, who came to power
in 1975 after General Gowon is ousted, joins the ancestors
after being killed in an unsuccessful counter-coup. His
chief of staff, General Olusegun Obasanjo, will assume
Mohammed's post and his promise to hand over political power
to civilian rule.
1996 - Minister Louis Farrakhan, of the Nation of Islam, visits Iran
to celebrate its 1979 revolution ousting the Shah.
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