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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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