Southern Regional Council announced that Sit-in movement had effected twenty states and more than one hundred cities in Southern and Border States in period from February, 1960, to September, 1961. At least seventy thousand Blacks and whites had participated in the movement, the report said. The council estimated that 3,600 had been arrested and that at least 141 students and 58 faculty members had been expelled by college authorities. SRC said one or more establishments in 108 Southern and Border State cities had been desegregated as a result of sit-ins.

Born in Washington, D.C. in 1953, Teddy Bernard Taylor graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science from Florida A&M University in 1975. During his time in Tallahassee, Taylor became a member of the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity.

In 1978, Taylor began his diplomatic career. His first position was a Consular/Economic Officer at the U.S. Embassy in Guatemala. After working there for two years, Taylor was assigned to the U.S. Embassy in Panama, where he served as a Consular Officer in the capital, Panama City, from 1981 to 1983. While in Panama City, Taylor coached a basketball team of 13-15 year olds in the former Panama Canal Zone. From 1983 to 1985, Taylor worked at the U.S. Embassy in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

When he returned to the United States in 1985, Taylor was appointed Deputy Director of Press and Public Affairs in the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs in the U.S. State Department. In 1987, he became Deputy Political Officer for Latin America at the United States Information Agency (USIA). From 1988 to 1991, Taylor served as Deputy Director for East Asian and Pacific Assignments at the Bureau of Human Resources in the State Department and then from 1991 to 1992, he held the position of Deputy Examiner in the Board of Foreign Service Examiners at the Bureau of Human Resources. He then served as the Special Assistant in the Visa Services Office in the Bureau of Consular Affairs from 1992 to 1993.

For four years beginning in 1995, Taylor worked as the Consular Officer at the United States Embassy in Budapest, Hungary. During his time in Hungary, Taylor served as the Chairperson of the Cub and Boy Scouts and was a merit badge instructor and Chairman of the Eagle Scout Board Review Committee. In recognition of his innovative leadership at the embassy, Taylor received the State Department’s Barbara Watson Award for Consular Excellence.

In 2001, Taylor became the first African American Director of the U.S. Foreign Service Institute located in Arlington, Virginia.  He was then named Consul General at

Inventor, FW Leslie, patents the envelope seal, 1891

Kofi Awoonor , original name George Kofi Awoonor Williams (born March 13, 1935, Weta, Gold Coast [now Ghana]—died September 21, 2013, Nairobi, Kenya), Ghanaian novelist and poet whose verse has been widely translated and anthologized.

After graduating (1960) from the University College of the Gold Coast (now the University of Ghana, Legon), Awoonor studied at University College, London (M.A., 1970), and the State University of New York at Stony Brook (Ph.D., 1972), where he remained on the faculty until he returned to Ghana (1975) to teach at the University of Cape Coast. He also lectured in English and African literature at the University of Ghana, directed the Ghana Film Corporation, founded the Ghana Playhouse, and served as an editor of the literary journal Okyeame and as an associate editor of Transition. In the early 1970s he served as chairman of the department of comparative literature at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He returned to Ghana in August 1975 to teach at the University College of Cape Coast, but that December he was arrested on charges of harbouring an army officer accused of attempting a government coup. He was found guilty, but his sentence was remitted in October 1976, and he resumed teaching. He later served as Ghana’s ambassador to Brazil (1984–88), Cuba (1988–90), and the United Nations (1990–94).

Awoonor sought to incorporate African vernacular traditions—notably the dirge song tradition of the Ewe people—into modern poetic form. His major themes—Christianity, exile, and death important among them—are enlarged from poem to poem by repetition of key lines and phrases and by use of extended rhythms. Each poem in Rediscovery and Other Poems (1964), for example, records a single moment in a larger pattern of recognition and rediscovery. Awoonor’s subsequent volumes of poetry include Night of My Blood (1971), Ride Me, Memory (1973), The House by the Sea (1978), and Latin American and Caribbean Notebook (1992). His collected poems (through 1985) were published in Until

John Henry Conyers of South Carolina became the first Black student at Annapolis Naval Academy. He later resigned.

Delorez Florence Griffith Joyner

TRACK & FIELD

Birthplace:Los Angeles, California

December 21, 1959 - September 21, 1998

Florence was married to Al Joyner, sister of Jackie Joyner-Kersee.

General Colin Powell named Chairman of the joint Chiefs

of Staff

On this date in 1832, Maria W. Stewart (1803-1879) addressed the New England Anti-Slavery Society meeting in Bostons Franklin Hall on the evils of slavery and the oppression of free blacks. This is often cited as the first time an African American woman spoke publicly on political issues before an audience of Black and White men and women. In future speeches, Stewart also advanced womens rights.

John David Beckett Taylor, the Baron of Warwick, was born on September 21, 1952 in Birmingham, England. His parents, Derief, a professional cricket player, and Enid, a nurse, were originally from Jamaica. Taylor was educated at Moseley Grammar School and later studied English Literature and Law at Keele University before moving to London to pursue a career in Law. He was called to the Bar in 1978 and began a successful career as a Barrister. In 1981 he married his first wife, Jean Katherine Binysh, a pediatrician, with whom he had three children.

Taylor became involved in politics in 1990 when he was named special advisor to the Home Secretary and the Home Office Ministers in the Conservative government of Prime Minister John Major.  In 1992, as the Conservative candidate, he contested but lost the parliamentary seat for Cheltenham.  There was significant opposition to his candidacy from members of his own party because of his race. The notoriety of the election, however, gave Taylor the opportunity to work in television where he was invited to host a national morning show giving viewers legal advice. He later became a producer for the BBC.

In 1996 Taylor was offered and accepted a life peerage from the Government. He was created Baron Taylor of Warwick in the County of Warwickshire by Queen Elizabeth II and became the youngest person and the first person of African ancestry to sit in the House of Lords. In 1997 Taylor introduced a Bill into the House that later became the Criminal Evidence (Amendment) Act of 1997.

Taylor also held several board and committee memberships including: Greater London Further Education Funding Council; Vice-President, British Board of Film Classification; and the Independent Football Commission. Several of his contemporaries found him distant and unwilling to be involved with his fellow Lords. Despite his critics, Taylor also had allies, many of whom believed and publicly asserted that he would become a Cabinet Minister in a future Conservative Government.  In 1997 Taylor was

Archbishop Joseph E. Ritter said he would excommunicate St. Louis Catholics who continued to protest integration of parochial schools.

National Guard mobilized to stop rioting in Dayton, Ohio.

Andrew Jackson issued Proclamation at Mobile, Ala., urging free Blacks to rally around the standard of the eagle in the War of 1812.

Maria W. Stewart (1803-1879) was one of the first American women to leave copies of her speeches. The address below is her second public lecture. It was given on September 21, 1832 in Franklin Hall in Boston, the meeting site of the new England Anti-Slavery Society. Although as an abolitionist, she usually attacked slavery, in this address she condemns the attitude that denied black women education and prohibited their occupational advancement. In fact she argues that Northern African American women, in term of treatment, were only slightly better off than slaves.

Why sit ye here and die? If we say we will go to a foreign land, the famine and the pestilence are there, and there we shall die. If we sit here, we shall die. Come let us plead our cause before the whites: if they save us alive, we shall live—and if they kill us, we shall but die.

Methinks I heard a spiritual interrogation—Who shall go forward, and take off the reproach that is cast upon the people of color? Shall it be a woman? And my heart made this reply —If it is thy will, be it even so, Lord Jesus!

I have heard much respecting the horrors of slavery; but may Heaven forbid that the generality of my color throughout these United States should experience any more of its horrors than to be a servant of servants, or hewers of wood and drawers of water! Tell us no more of southern slavery; for with few exceptions, although I may be very erroneous in my opinion, yet I consider our condition but little better than that. Yet, after all, methinks there are no chains so galling as the chains of ignorance—no fetters so binding as those that bind the soul, and exclude it from the vast field of useful and scientific knowledge. O, had I received the advantages of early education, my ideas would, ere now, have expanded far and wide; but, alas! I possess nothing but moral capability—no teachings but the teachings of the Holy spirit.

I have asked several individuals of my sex, who transact business for themselves, if providing our girls were to give them the