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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.
The day before on Sept 9, four black students in Huntsville entered Fifth Avenue school to become the first children to desegregate schools in that town and the entire state. The first student to take that step was Sonnie Hereford IV, who is credited as the first black student to enroll in school in the state of Alabama.
On Sep 10, 2013, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of that day, Hereford and his father recreated the historic photo of them walking into the school.
