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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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@nursefrombirth I appreciate these posts as the history we weren't taught. Some I know some is new to me. Even the some I know wasn't (prob isnt still) taught in schools. In these decisive times we often hear talk about people trying to rewrite history. From the amounts that have been left out I think we have been rewriting it all along.
We cant be free without truth and that includes all of it.