This Week In Black History – September 5, 2024

September 5, 1960 – Leopold Sedar Senghor elected president of Senegal.

September 6, 1848 – Frederick Douglass elected president of National Black Political Convention in Cleveland, OH.

September 7, 1954 – Washington, DC and Baltimore, MD, public schools integrated.

September 8, 1907 – Negro Leagues baseball star Buck Leonard was born.

September 9, 1968 – Arthur Ashe, Jr., won the first U.S. Open Tennis Championship.

September 10, 1855 – John Mercer Langston elected township clerk of Brownhelm, OH, becoming the first black to hold elective office in the US.

September 11, 1959 – Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington won Spingarn Medal for his achievements in music.