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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.
https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/hatchett-joseph-woodrow-1932/
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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.
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September 8, 1925 ~ Dr. Ossian Sweet, a Black doctor, faced a hostile mob after moving into an all-White neighborhood in Detroit. When a shot rang out, killing one mob member, all 11 individuals in the home were charged with murder.
Sweet's brother admitted to firing the shot but claimed self-defense. An all-White jury returned a not guilty verdict. The trial highlighted the power of legal advocacy and the fight for racial justice.
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September 9, 1999 ~ Sylvia Stanfield, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service with the rank of Minister-Counselor, was appointed as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to Brunei by President William J. Clinton becoming the nation's first African-American woman Ambassador to Brunei.
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September 10, 1973 ~ A commemorative stamp is issued by the U.S. Postal Service to honor Henry Ossawa Tanner, the first African American artist elected to the National Academy of Design.
This stamp was the third of four of the American Arts Series issued that year.
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Sept 11, 1962 ~ Two youths involved in voter registration drive in Mississippi wounded by shotgun blasts fired through the window of a home in Ruleville. James Forman, of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), asked the president to "convene a special White House Conference to discuss means of stopping the wave of terror sweeping through the South, especially where SNCC worked on voter registration.
https://www.archives.gov/research/african-americans/black-power/sncc
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Sept 12, 1992—Dr. Mae Jemison becomes the first African-American woman in space when she was launched from the Kennedy Space Center as part of a joint U.S.-Japanese mission.
Since resigning from NASA, the multi-talented Jemison has started a company which aims to improve health care in Africa. In addition to her native English, Jemison speaks Russian, Japanese and the East African language of Swahili.
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Sept 13, 1962 ~ Mississippi Gov Ross Barnett defied the federal government in impassioned speech on statewide radio-television hookup, saying he would "interpose" the authority of the state between the University of Mississippi and federal judges who had ordered the admission of James H. Meredith. Barnett said, "There is no case in history where the Caucasian race has survived social integration."
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Sept 14, 1940 ~ With the Nazi army sweeping across Europe, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Selective Service Act, which required all men between 26 and 35 to register for the military draft. The decision also meant that Black men — unlike in the past — could join all branches of the U.S. military.
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Sept 17, 1787 ~ The United States Constitution is approved but it includes three clauses allowing for the continuation of slavery even though it was supposed to be a document of freedom.
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September 18, 1945 ~ hundreds of white students at Froebel School walked out of their classes to protest African American students at the institution. According to the Gary Post-Tribune, the striking students “urged that Froebel school be reserved for whites only” or that they be transferred to other schools themselves.
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https://blog.history.in.gov/a-challenge-to-integration-the-froebel-school-strikes-of-1945/
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September 19, 1964 ~ In his address at the National Baptist Convention’s 84th annual meeting held in Detroit, Rev. Joseph Jackson outlines why he feels that obtaining and using the vote are the only necessary actions to bring about racial equality in the United States.
“The Vote is the Only Effective Weapon in the Civil Rights Struggle”
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September 27, 1950 ~Gwendolyn Brooks is awarded Pulitzer Prize for her book of poetry —“Annie Allen.” She was the first Black so honored. Brooks published her first poem in a children’s magazine, “American Childhood,” when she was 13 years old. By the time she was 16, she had compiled a portfolio of around 75 published poems and had her work critiqued by poet and novelist James Weldon Johnson.
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September 28, 1962 ~ Governor Ross R. Barnett of Mississippi was found guilty of civil contempt of Federal court orders against interfering with the desegregation of the University of Mississippi by refusing admission to a black student, James Howard Meredith.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ordered the Governor to clear himself of the contempt or face arrest and a fine of $10,000 a day.
A civil rights attorney who obtained his legal education within the metro DC area and who eventually was able to become a jurist on the Highest Court in the land.
Brown vs. Board of Education was victory lead by Justice Marshall when he was a NAACP civil rights attorney.👍. Good info!!!
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September 23, 1961 ~ President Kennedy named Thurgood Marshall to U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for
the Second Circuit, a position he held until 1965, when Kennedy’s successor, Lyndon B. Johnson, named him solicitor general. Following the retirement of Justice Tom Clark in 1967, President Johnson appointed Marshall to the Supreme Court, a decision confirmed by the Senate with a 69-11 vote.