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September 1, 1975 ~ General Daniel “Chappie” James becomes the nation’s first Black four-star general and takes command of the North American Air Defense Command. The posi­tion made him a key player in the nation’s nuclear defense system. James was born in Pensacola, Fla., and died at the relatively young age of 57 in 1978.

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September 2, 1975 ~ Joseph W. Hatchett sworn in as a Florida Supreme Court Justice becoming the first African American in the South to sit on a state supreme court since Jonathan Jasper Wright was appointed to the South Carolina Supreme Court in 1870.

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September 3, 1838—Frederick Douglass es­capes from slavery on Maryland’s Eastern Shore using so-called “free papers” and disguising him­self as a sailor. He would go on to become the most prominent an­ti-slavery activist and Black lead­er of his day.

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September 4, 1957 ~ Arkansas governor Orval Faubus enlists the National Guard to prevent nine African American students from entering Central High School in Little Rock.in violation of a federal order to integrate the school.

The conflict set the stage for the first major test of the U.S. Supreme Court’s unanimous 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka that racial segregation in educational facilities is unconstitutional.

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September 5, 1859 ~ Harriet Wilson becomes the 1st African American to publish a novel in the US. The novel “Our Nig: Or Sketches from the Life of a Free Black" was published anonymously in 1859 and lost for years until reprinted by Black scholar Henry Louis Gates in 1982. The novel centers on the life of “Frada”—a Black indentured servant who was physi­cally and emotionally abused by her owners.

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September 7, 1957—Ghana becomes the first Afri­can country to break from White co­lonial rule and become an indepen­dent nation. The West African nation, once known as the Gold Coast, was led to independence by the dynam­ic Pan-Africanist Kwame Nkrumah.

The U.S. educated Nkrumah would be overthrown in a military coup in 1966. He befriended American activists ranging from W.E.B DuBois to Martin Luther King Jr.