Arthur Ashe became the first winner of the U.S. Open Tennis Championship, defeating Tom Okker of the Netherlands at Forest Hills Stadium, New York.
On this date in 1800, Zion AME Church dedicated in New York City.
On this date in 1981, Vernon E. Jordan resigned as president of the National Urban League and announced plans to join a Washington law firm. He was succeeded by John E. Jacob, executive vice president of the league.
On this date in 1979, Robert Guillaume wins an Emmy for best actor in a comedy series for Soap
On this date in 1962, Two churches burned near Sasser, Georgia. Black leaders asked the president to stop the “Nazi-like reign of terror in southwest Georgia.”
On this date in 1957, Nashville’s new Hattie Cotton Elementary School with enrollment of 1 Black and 388 whites virtually destroyed by dynamite blast.
On this date in 1957, Rev. F.L. Shuttlesworth mobbed when he attempted to enroll his daughters in “white” Birmingham school.
On this date in 1957, the first civil rights bill to pass Congress since reconstruction was passed by President Eisenhower, 1957
On this date in 1934, Poet Sonia Sanchez was born Wilsonia Benita Driver in Birmingham, Alabama.
On this date in 1915, the father of Black history, Carter G Woodson, founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASNLH) . The name was later changed to the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History in 1972.
On this date in 1908, Writer Richard Wright, author of “Native Son” and “Black Boy” was born.
On this date in 1884, John R Lynch Presides over Republican National Convention
On this date in 1847, John R Lynch was born.
On this date in 1817, Captain Paul Cuffe (58), entrepreneur and activist, dies in Westport, Massachusetts.
On this date in 1823, Alexander Lucius Twilight, born free in Vermont, was the first African-American person known to have earned a bachelor’s degree from an American college or university upon graduating Middlebury College in 1823
On this date in 1816, Kentucky abolitionist and founder of Berea College, John Gregg Fee was born.
On this date in 1806, Abolitionist Sarah Mapps Douglass was born
Early in the Morning on this date in 1739, a Slave rebellion in Stono, South Carolina, was led by a rebel named Jemmy. Early on the morning of Sunday, September 9, 1739, 20 black slaves met in secret near the Stono River in South Carolina to plan their escape to freedom. Minutes later, they burst into Hutcheson’s store at Stono’s bridge, killed the two storekeepers, and stole the guns and powder inside. The group of slaves grew in number as they headed south. Stono’s Rebellion, the largest slave uprising in the Colonies prior to the American Revolution, was under way. Twenty-five whites were killed before the insurrection was put down.
