TODAY IN BLACK HISTORY—Sept. 14th

September 14, 1921—Constance Baker Motley, first African American to be appointed as a federal judge, is born. 

http://www.answers.com/topic/constance-baker-motley

Read more about her amazing accomplishments in Book of black Heroes: Great Women in the Struggle, edited by Toyomi Igus, published by Just Us Books.

TODAY IN BLACK HISTORY—Sept. 13th

September 12, 1885—Alain L. Locke, African-American writer, educator, philosopher and patron of the arts is born. A chief cultural architect of the Harlem Renaissance, he died in 1954.

September 13, 1881—Lewis Latimer patents an electric lamp with a carbon filament.

            

TODAY IN BLACK HISTORY—Sept. 12th Mae Jemison

September 12, 1992— Mae C. Jemison becomes the first African-American woman to travel in space.

Read more about her in Book of Black Heroes:Great Women in the Struggle, published by Just Us Books, Inc.

TODAY IN BLACK HISTORY—Sept. 11th

September 11, 1959—"Duke" Ellington won Spingarn Medal for his musical Achievements.

Read more about him in AFRO-BETS Book of Black Heroes from A to Z, coming from Just Us Books in October, 2012.

http://www.dukeellington.com/ 

TODAY IN BLACK HISTORY—Sept. 10th

September 10, 1884—African-American Congressman John R. Lynch presides over the Republican National Convention.

Read more about the life and works of Congressman Lynch online at the African American Registry.
http://www.aaregistry.org/historic_events/view/john-r-lynch-black-congressman-magnolia-state

TODAY IN BLACK HISTORY—Sept. 9th

September 9, 1915—Association for the Study of Negro Life and History is founded by Carter G Woodson. 

Read more about Dr. Woodson's life and work.http://www.asalh.org/woodsonbiosketch.html