September 1, 1891 - Halle T.D. Johnson
becomes first woman of any
race to practice medicine in Alabama.
September 2, 1958 - Frederick M. Jones
patents control device for
internal combustion engine.
September 3, 1979 - Robert Maynard
editor-publisher of the Oakland
(California) Tribune, becoming the first
African American to head a
daily newspaper.
September 4, 1962 - New Orleans Catholic
schools integrated.
September 5, 1960 - Leopold Sedar Senghor
elected president of Senegal.
September 6, 1848 - Frederick Douglass
elected president of National
Black Political Convention in Cleveland,
Ohio.
September 7, 1954 - Washington, D.C. and
Baltimore, Md., public
schools integrated.
September 8, 1907 - Negro Leagues baseball
star Buck Leonard born.
September 9, 1968 - Arthur Ashe Jr. wins the
first U.S. Open Tennis
Championship.
September 10, 1855 - John Mercer Langston
elected township clerk of
Brownhelm, Ohio, becoming first black to
hold elective office in the
U.S.
September 11, 1959 - Edward Kennedy "Duke"
Ellington wins Springarm
Medal for his achievements in music.
September 12, 1992 - Dr. Mae C. Jemison
becomes first African
American woman to travel in space.
September 13, 1886 - Literary critic Alain
Locke, first African
American Rhodes Scholar, born.
September 14, 1921 - Constance Baker Motley,
first African American
appointed federal judge, born.
September 15, 1963 - Four African American
girls killed in Birmingham
church bombing.
September 16, 1923 - First Catholic seminary
for Black priests
dedicated in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi.
September 17, 1983 - Vanessa Williams
becomes first African American
woman named Miss America.
September 18, 1895 - Booker T. Washington
delivers famous Atlanta
Exposition speech.
September 19, 1893 - Elbert R. Robinson
patents electric highway
trolley.
September 20, 1830 - First National
Convention for Free Men agrees to
boycott slave-produced goods.
September 21, 1815 - General Andrew Jackson
honors courage of Black
troops who fought in Battle of New Orleans.
September 22, 1862 - Emancipation
Proclamation announced.
September 23, 1863 - Civil and women's
rights advocate Mary Church
Terrell born.
September 24, 1957 - Federal troops enforce
court-ordered integration
as nine children integrate Central High
School in Little Rock, Ark.
September 25, 1974 - Barbara Hancock becomes
first African American
woman named a White House Fellow.
September 26, 1962 - Sonny Liston knocks out
Floyd Patterson to win
heavyweight boxing championship.
September 27, 1912 - W.C. Handy publishes
"Memphis Blues".
September 28, 1895 - National Baptist
Convention organized.
September 29, 1910 - The National Urban
League founded in New York
City.
September 30, 1962 - Under the protection of
federal marshals, James
Meredith enrolls as the first African
American student at University
of Mississippi.
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