The First African Lodge, #459, was established with Prince Hall as its Worshipful Master.

Samora Machel , (born September 29, 1933, Chilembene, Mozambique—died October 19, 1986, Mbuzini, South Africa), Mozambican politician, who was the first president of independent Mozambique (1975–86).

Lt. Gov. Paul Johnson found guilty of civil contempt.

First Black captain of a US merchant ship, Hugh Mulzac, launches with the Booker T Washington, 1942

Mabel Fairbanks, 85, the first black women to be inducted into the U.S. Figure Skating Hall of Fame died following a long illness. Fairbanks coached Olympians Tai Babilonia and Randy Gardner.

Kevin Wayne Durant is a professional basketball player for the National Basketball Association (NBA) who played for the Oklahoma City Thunder (formally known as Seattle Supersonics) and who now plays for the Golden State Warriors in California.

Durant was born September 29, 1988, in Washington, D.C. to Wanda Durant and Wayne Pratt.  Durant’s father abandoned the family when he was still an infant, leaving his mother and grandmother, Barbara Davis, to raise him. Durant’s father later returned to his life when Durant was 13 years old.

Durant’s involvement in sports began when he played for a youth basketball team in Prince George’s County, Maryland called the PG Jaguars.  Durant attended several Christian schools where he played high school basketball.  His first two years were spent at the National Christian Academy located in Fort Washington, Maryland. Durant then attended Oak Hill Academy, a private Baptist secondary school in Mouth-of-Wilson, Virginia during his junior year and then transferred to Montrose Christian School in Rockville, Maryland for his senior year.  Despite his frequent transfers, sports writers recognized his talent.  Durant was named to Pride Magazine’s First Team list and USA Today’s First Team All-American lists.

After graduating from high school in 2006, Durant attended the University of Texas at Austin where he played for the Texas Longhorns men’s basketball team. During his freshman year with the Longhorns, Durant started in every game and averaged 25.8 points per game and 11 rebounds. He helped lead the Longhorns to the second round of the National College Athletic Association (NCAA) Men’s Basketball Championship which the Longhorns lost to the University of Southern California. At the end of his freshman year, Durant was national college player of the year (2007), First Team All-American (2007), winner of the Oscar Robertson and the Adolph F. Rupp Awards, and he was named the Big 12 Tournament’s Most Valuable Player.

After playing one year with the Longhorns, Durant declared

The National Urban League (NUL), formerly known as the National League on Urban Conditions Among Negroes, is a nonpartisan civil rights organization based in New York City that advocates on behalf of African Americans and against racial discrimination in the United States. It is the oldest and largest community-based organization of its kind in the nation. Its current President is Marc Morial.

The Committee on Urban Conditions Among Negroes was founded in New York City on September 29, 1910 by Ruth Standish Baldwin and Dr. George Edmund Haynes, among others.[1] It merged with the Committee for the Improvement of Industrial Conditions Among Negroes in New York (founded in New York in 1906) and the National League for the Protection of Colored Women (founded in 1905), and was renamed the National League on Urban Conditions Among Negroes.[2] [3]

In 1918, Eugene K. Jones took the leadership of the organization. Under his direction, the League significantly expanded its multifaceted campaign to crack the barriers to black employment, spurred first by the boom years of the 1920s, and then by the desperate years of the Great Depression.[4]

In 1920, the organization took the present name, the National Urban League.[5] The mission of the Urban League movement, as stated by the National Urban League, is to enable African Americans to secure economic self-reliance, parity, power and civil rights.[6]

In 1941, Lester Granger was appointed Executive Secretary and led the NULs effort to support the March on Washington proposed by A. Philip Randolph, Bayard Rustin and A. J. Muste to protest racial discrimination in defense work and the military.[7] During the Civil Rights Movement, Granger prevailed in his insistence that the NUL continue its strategy of education and persuasion.

In 1961, Whitney Young became executive director amidst the expansion of activism in the civil rights movement, which provoked a change for the League. Young substantially expanded the Leagues fund-raising ability- and made the League a full

Booker T. Washington, the first U.S. merchant ship commanded by a Black captain (Hugh Mulzac), launched at Wilmington, Delaware.

Carson McCullers , née Lula Carson Smith (born February 19, 1917, Columbus, Georgia, U.S.—died September 29, 1967, Nyack, New York), American writer of novels and stories that depict the inner lives of lonely people.

At age 17 Lula Carson Smith, whose father was a modestly successful jeweler in Columbus, Georgia, went to New York City to study at Columbia and New York universities, and in 1937 she married Reeves McCullers, a writer whom she had met in Georgia and with whom she was to have a long and complicated relationship. They divorced in 1940 after he was found to have forged some of her royalty checks but remarried in 1945. Her life after that was clouded by pain, illness, and tragedy. She fell in love at least twice with women who did not reciprocate her feelings and once with a man who also interested her husband. Repeated strokes incapacitated her for long periods, and partial paralysis confined McCullers to a wheelchair in her later years.

Her achievement as a writer—a career that was successfully launched by her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940; filmed 1968)—was the outgrowth of her own character and lonely suffering. The novel concerns four inhabitants of a small town in Georgia—an adolescent girl with a passion to study music, an unsuccessful socialist agitator, a black physician struggling to maintain his personal dignity, and a widower who owns a café. Reflections in a Golden Eye (1941; filmed 1967), a shorter work set in a Southern army post that chronicles the unhappy life of a captain (a latent homosexual) and his wife (a nymphomaniac), confirmed McCullers’s earlier success.

During the 1940s McCullers met American playwright Tennessee Williams, and they became friends. Williams encouraged her to make a play of her novel The Member of the Wedding (1946), a sensitive portrayal of a lonely adolescent whose attachment to her brother precipitates a crisis at his wedding. The novel proved to be her most popular work, and it was equally successful as a play, heralded by some as a

Ambassador to Zimbabwe, was born in New Orleans, Louisiana on September 29, 1951.

Sir William Arthur Lewis, Professor of Economics Princeton University, became the first black to receive the Nobel Prize in Economics. This award represents the highest level of accomplishment for an economist.

President John F Kennedy sends federal troops in integration of University of Mississippi,

1962

First Black-owned television station in US, WGPR-TV Detroit, begins broadcasting, 1975

Edward Thomas Demby elected suffragan bishop of the Protestant Episcopal diocese of Arkansas.