Today in Black History: September 3rd

This article commemorates two significant dates in African American history during the month of September. On September 3, 1838, Frederick Douglass successfully fled enslavement by disguising himself as a sailor and traveling from Maryland to New York, where he later married Anna Murray and began his influential work in the abolitionist movement. The article also marks September 3, 1895, as the birth date of Charles Hamilton Houston, a Harvard-trained attorney who became dean of Howard University Law School and served as the NAACP's first general counsel.