On This Day In Black History...

• 1743 ~ Touissant L'Ouverture, Leader of the Great Haitian Slave Revolt, was born! In 1791 a half million African Slaves set fire to plantations and killed all those in their path. General L'Ouverture took charge and trained the disorganized Black Slaves to become competent troops. His military skill and absolute brilliance outmanuevered the French, the English, the Spaniards & Napoleon's army. He played the competing European nations one against the other until he successflly drove them all from the island telling the Haitian slaves, "Here is your liberty!"


• 1861 ~ North Carolina became the last state to secede from the Union


• 1942 ~ Black recruits were allowed to serve in the U.S. Navy


• 1961 ~ Atty General Robert F. Kennedy dispatched 400 U.S. marshals to Montgomery, AL to restore order when Freedom Riders were attacked by an angry mob who attacked them with baseball bats, pipes, and sticks. One Black Rider was covered with kerosene and set on fire