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Vanessa Williams & Suzette Charles On September 17, 1983, In Atlantic City, New Jersey, 20-Year Old, Vanessa Williams Was Crowned The First Black American Miss America.On That Same Night, New J

B.B. King Riley B. King, Aka, "B.B.," Was Born September 16, 1925, In Ita Bena, Mississippi.B.B. King Is A Bona Fide Music Legend. For Decades He Has Carried On The Delta Blues Tradition --- Recordin

Four Little Girls Killed In Church Bombing On September 15, 1963, The Ku Klux Klan Bombed The 16th Street Baptist Church In Birmingham, Alabama.Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carol Robertson And

Speckled Red Rufus "Speckled Red" Perryman Recorded The Song. "The Dirty Dozen," On The Brunswick Label, In Memphis, Tennessee, On September 14, 1929. Perryman Was Born October 23, 1892, In M

Attica Prison InmatesOn September 13, 1971, Five Days Of Rioting At The Maximum-Security Prison In Attica, New York, Came To A Dramatic Conclusion.The Majority Of The Security Guards At Attica Were Wh

James Meredith On September 10, 1962, The U.S. Supreme Court Ordered The University of Mississippi To Admit James Meredith - Making Him The First Black Student To Attend "Ole Miss." He Graduated Fr

Stono On Sept. 9, 1739, The Bloodiest Slave Rebellion Of The Century Ignited At Stono, South Carolina, Outside Of Charleston.Twenty Angolans, Led By A Slave Named Cato. Seized Weapons From A Storeh

Dorothy Dandridge On September 8, 1965, Dandridge Was Found Dead In Her Hollywood Home -- An Apparent Suicide Via A Drug Overdose.Born On November 9, 1922, In Cleveland, Ohio, Dandridge Entered Show

Jackie Wilson On September, 7, 1968, "I Get The Sweetest Feeling," By R&B Legend, Jackie Wilson, Peaked At #34 On The Pop Music Charts. This Would Also Be His Last Top 40 Single, Although He Co

Bessie Coleman On September 3, 1922, Bessie Coleman Made Her First Flight In An American Airplane, At An Exhibition Honoring The All-Black 15th Infantry Regiment Of The New York National Guard. Cole

Bill Cosby And Robert Kulp The Last Episode Of The Television Drama, I SPY, Aired On September 2, 1968. The Show Followed Two Undercover Agents On Various Adventures Around The World.Bill Cosby Playe

Ethel Waters The Woman Many Consider The First Black American Superstar, Singer/Actress, Ethel Waters, Died September 1, 1977.Waters Began Her Career Was A Nightclub Singer, Using The Stage Name, "

Eldridge Cleaver Eldridge Cleaver Was Born On August 31, 1935, In Wabbaseka, Arkansas.His Family Moved To Phoenix, And Finally To Los Angeles, Where Cleaver, During His Teens, Would Become Involved

Guion Bluford On August 30, 1983, The Space Shuttle, Challenger, Left Kennedy Space Center, Carrying The First African American Male Astronaut To Go Into Space.Forty-Year-Old, Col. Guion S. Bluford

Gail Fisher On August 27, 1975, The Last Episode Of The TV Show, Mannix, Aired On CBS. The One-Hour Television Drama Featured The Character, Joe, Mannix, A Los Angeles Detective And His Widowed Gir

Norbert Rillieux Norbert Rillieux Registered Patent No. 3,237 For A Vacuum-Pan Evaporator At The U.S. Patent Office On August 26,1843.The Rillieux Evaporator Revolutionized The Sugar Industry Worldwi

Asa Phillip Randolph Asa Phillip Randolph And Five Other Men Organized The Brotherhood Of Sleeping Car Porters On August 25, 1925. The BSCP Became One Of The Most Powerful Organizations In The Histor

Bayard Rustin Civil Rights Activist, Bayard Rustin, Died From A Heart Attack, On August 24, 1987.Born March 17, 1912, In West Chester, Pennsylvania, Rustin Was Raised By His Grandparents. His Grand

First Africans Arrive In Jamestown Virginia, 1619 On August 20, 1619, The First 20 African Settlers Arrived In The United States As Indentured Servants, Landing In Jamestown Colony, Virginia. They

Benjamin Banneker Benjamin Banneker Was A Noted Mathematician, Surveyor And Astronomer, And The Most Famous African American Of The Colonial Era.While In His 20's Banneker Built The First Clock Mad

James Meredith James Meredith, The First Black Student Admitted To "Ole Miss", Graduated from That University On August 18, 1963 At Age 30.Meredith Was Born In Kosciusko, Mississippi, June 25, 1933

Marcus M. Garvey HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Marcus Mosiah Garvey!! CLICK The Link To View Toady's Blog And Watch The Complete Documentary,"MARCUS MOSIAH GARVEY - SEE ME IN THE WHIRLWIND"http://www.blackin

Peter Salem Peter Salem, A Revolutionary War Veteran And Hero Of The Battle Of Bunker Hill, Died On This Date, In 1816. During The Battle Of Bunker Hill (Which Actually Took Place On Breed's Hill), F

Elijah Muhammad A New York Times Article Dated August 13, 1962, Read:"Elijah Muhammad, a 64-year-old Georgia Negro, told a crowd at Kiel Auditorium {that} the United States should say: 'I'll give y

Alex Haley Author, Alexander Murray Palmer Haley Was Born In Ithaca, New York, On August 11, 1921. He Is Best Known As The Author Of Roots: The Saga of an American Family And The Autobiography Of M