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| September 1 LABOR DAY 1964: President Lyndon Johnson signed into law the Nurse Training Act of 1964, making it possible for black nurses to get federal funding for their education. |
September 2 1958: Frederick M. Jones patents control device for internal combustion engine. |
September 3 1979: Robert Maynard, first African American to head a major daily newspaper, Oakland Tribune in California |
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. |
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| September 7 1954: Washington, D.C., and Baltimore, Maryland, public schools integrated. |
September 8 1907: Negro League's baseball star Buck Leonard born. |
September 9 1968: Arthur Ashe Jr. wins men's singles tennis championship at U.S Open. 2000: Venus Williams wins women's singles tennis championship at U.S Open. |
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 Spingarn Medal for his achievements in music. 1999: Serena Williams wins women's singles tennis championship at U.S Open. |
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 woman appointed federal judge, born. |
September 15 1963: Four African American girls killed in Birmingham, Alabama, church bombing. |
September 16 1923: First Catholic seminary for black priests dedicated in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. |
September 17 1983: Vanessa Williams crowned Miss America. |
September 18 1895: Booker T. Washington delivers famous Atlanta Exposition speech. |
September 19 1893: Albert R. Robinson patents electric railway trolley |
September 20 1830: First National Convention of Free Men agrees to boycott slave-produced goods. |
| September 21 1815: Gen. Andrew Jackson honors courage of black troops who fought in Battle of New Orleans. 1998: Florence Griffith Joyner, Olympic track star, dies. |
September 22 1862: Emancipation Proclamation announced. 1989: Gen. Colin Powell is confirmed as Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, first African American to hold the post. |
September 23 1863: Civil and women's rights advocate Mary Church Terrell born. |
September 24 1957: Nine children integrate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. |
September 25 1974:Barbara Hancock becomes first African American woman named a White House fellow. |
September 25 1974:Barbara Hancock becomes first African American woman named a White House fellow. |
September 26 ROSH HASHANA BEGINS (SUNDOWN) 1883:Sojourner Truth, abolitionist and Civil War nurse, dies. 1962:Sonny Liston knocks out Floyd Patterson to win heavyweight boxing championship. |
| September 27 2000:Venus Williams wins an Olympic gold medal in women's singles tennis. | September 28
1895: National Baptist Convention organized. 1912: W.C. Handy publishes "Memphis Blues." 2000: Venus and Serena Williams win Olympic gold medals in women's pairs tennis. |
September 29 1910: National Urban League founded in New York City. |
September 30 1962: James Meredith enrolls as first African American student at University of Mississippi. 1989: Mabel K. Staupers, black nurses' advocate, dies. 1998: Thomas Bradley, first African American mayor of Los Angeles, dies. |