This Week In Black History – August 31, 2023

August 31, 1836 – Henry Blair patents cotton planter.

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 C. 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.