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Civil Rights leader and former Executive Director of the NAACP, Roy Wilkins died on September 8, 1981, in New York City at age 80.
He began work as a journalist for the Minnesota Daily and became editor for an African American newspaper named "The St. Paul Appeal" and later editor of the Kansas City Call. Wilkins moved on to the NAACP as Asst Secretary from 1931-1934. and replaced W.E.B. Du Bois as Editor of the NAACP's Crisis magazine.
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🥰THE OPRAH WINFREY SHOW DEBUTS NATIONWIDE (1986)
On September 8, 1986, The Oprah Winfrey Show debuts Nationwide making the host the first African American woman to host a nationally syndicated television talk show.
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🎾 Arthur Ashe Becomes The First African American To Win The US Open Tennis Championship🎾
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Twenty brave young African American students began school at previously segregated schools in Alabama on September 10, 1963. The day before had become a national incident when segregationist Governor George C. Wallace had refused the demands of federal authorities and blocked the attendance of African American students.
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September 11, 1956 Cincinnati Reds outfielder Frank Robinson ties rookie record with his 38th HR
Mr. Robinson was a Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder who enjoyed a 20-year playing career with most notably the Reds (1956-65) and Orioles (1966-71).
Between 1956 and 1974 was a MLB All-Star on 14 occasions.
His playing No. 20 has been retired by the Cleveland, Cincinnati and Baltimore clubs.
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Dr. Mae Carol Jemison became the first African American woman to travel in space on September 12, 1992 aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour.
Jemison was selected as the first African American female candidate in the astronaut program by NASA on June 4, 1987. She added to her historic legacy when she participated in a space mission from September 12 to September 20, 1992 on STS-47 as a Mission Specialist.
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FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN RHODES SCHOLAR BORN
September 13, 1886
Writer, philosopher and the first African American Rhodes Scholar, Alain Locke born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Rhodes Scholarship is an international postgraduate award for students to study at the University of Oxford, in the UK.
Best known for his writings on and about the Harlem Renaissance. He is unofficially called the "Father of the Harlem Renaissance."
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September 14, 1955, Singer-Songwriter and Rock 'n' Roll Pioneer Little Richard records "Tutti Frutti" at J & M Studio in New Orleans, Louisiana
Little Richard was one of rock n' roll's most influential early performers. His sound and music went on to have a strong influence of such artists as The Beatles, Elvis Presley and James Brown.
🎶In 1986 he became one of the 10 original inductees into the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame.🎶
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September 15, 1963—In one of the most heartless terrorist attacks of the Civil Rights Movement, the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., is bombed by White supremacists and Ku Klux Klan members.
Four little Black girls are killed. But instead of scaring African Americans into backing away from their demands, the act actually inspired the Civil Rights Movement.
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September 16, 1933—“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.
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September 17, 1861—Hampton Institute (now university) is established by leaders of the American Missionary Association (AMA) after the Civil War to provide education to freedmen.
Mary Smith Peake was hired as the first teacher and held the first class on September 17, 1861.
HU has now become one of the nation’s leading predominately Black educational institutions.
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September 18, 1919 – An American football pioneer, Fritz Pollard becomes the first Black person to play Professional football for a major team, the Akron Indians. Pollard was also the first Black man to play in the Rose Bowl and was the first African American coach.
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Sept. 19, 1963 – Iota Phi Theta Fraternity was founded on this year at Morgan State University.
Twelve men were influenced by the civil rights movement (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Black Panthers, Malcolm X and Stokely Carmichael and more) in establishing the fraternity. It is one of the Divine 9, a collection of predominantly Black fraternities and sororities.
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September 20, 1664—Maryland enacts the nation’s first “Anti-Amalgamation Law.” It outlawed marriages between Black men and White women.
Soon, several other colonies followed it's example. It was not until the 1960s that SCOTUS in the famous Loving v. Virginia case declared all such laws un-Constitutional. In 2000 Alabama officially became the last state to strike from the books its law banning interracial marriages.
@nursefrombirth It's always interesting how governments react to the universal tendency to pair up and have children regardless of arbitrary divisions (thereby eroding those divisions). The Mexican colonial government recognized 3 or 4 basic races and gave up on trying to keep them separate -- though it tried to have a distinct set of laws for each of them -- and ended up having to define more than a hundred varieties of mixed-race offspring. It'd be funny if it weren't so evil.