Today in Black History: September 20th
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1830 – First National Black Convention Meets
1958 – Martin Luther King Jr Was Stabbed By Deranged Woman
1984 – The Cosby Show premieres on NBC
The Cosby Show premieres on NBC. In the pilot, the Huxtables have only four children. Following the pilot, the Huxtables have five children, adding their eldest daughter, Sondra, played by Sabrina Le Beauf, who is mentioned in episode four and appears first in episode ten. The character was created when Bill Cosby wanted the show to express the accomplishment of successfully raising a child (i.e., a college graduate).
1984 – Leontine T. Kelly is the First Black Woman to Become a Bishop in a Major Christian Denomination
Although a member of the Virginia Annual Conference in the Southeastern Jurisdiction, Leontine was elected to the Episcopacy by the Western Jurisdictional Conference of the U.M. Church in 1984 (only the second woman, and the first African American woman, to become a Bishop in any major Christian denomination in the World). She was assigned to the San Francisco Episcopal Area where she served until her retirement in 1988.
