*               Today in Black History - August 11                  *

1841 - African American abolitionist Frederick Douglass delivers his first
        public speech before the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society in
        Nantucket.  Having escaped from slavery only three years earlier,
        Douglass is legally a fugitive when he delivers his speech about
        his life as a slave. The Massachusetts Society immediately hires
        Douglass as a full-time lecturer.

1873 - John Rosamond Johnson is born in Jacksonville, Florida.  He will,
        with Bob Cole, be part of the famous vaudeville team Cole & Johnson.
        He will best be remembered as a composer who, with his brother
        James Weldon Johnson providing the lyrics, will write "Lift Every
        Voice and Sing."

1921 - Alex Haley is born in Ithaca, New York.  He will become an award-
        winning author, most notably for his authorship with Malcolm X of
        the latter's autobiography and for "Roots", which will win a
        special Pulitzer Prize.  "Roots" will be his most successful work,
        selling over 1 million copies and contributing to a new interest in
        African American history.

1925 - Carl T. Rowan is born in Ravencroft, Tennessee.   He will become one
        of America's most outspoken journalist with NBC News and The
        Chicago Daily News.  As an author, he will write "Dream Makers,
        Dream Breakers: The World of Justice Thurgood Marshall," "Breaking
        Barriers," "Wait Till Next Year," "Go South in Sorrow," and "South
        of Freedom."  He will be appointed to the positions of Director:
        U.S. Information Agency and U.S. Ambassador to Finland.

1942 - Otis Taylor is born.  He will become a professional football player
        with the Kansas City Chiefs, playing wide receiver.  He will be the
        UPI AFC Player of the Year in 1971, and will help lead his team to
        Super Bowl I and a victory in Super Bowl IV.

1948 - Amanda Randolph appears on the television series "The Laytons" on
        the Dumont Network.  She and Bob Howard of CBS' "The Bob Howard
        Show", which premiered earlier in the summer, are the first African
        Americans to be featured in a national network television series.

1949 - Peter Murray Marshall of New York is appointed to the American
        Medical Association's House of Delegates.

1960 - The African country of Chad declares independence from France.

1962 - After integrated groups try to use the facilities, police close the
        Municipal parks and library in Albany, Georgia.

1964 - A racially motivated disturbance occurs in Paterson, New Jersey.

1965 - Racially motivated disturbances start in the Watts section of Los
        Angeles, California.   In six days, the death toll will stand at
        34, 1,032 persons will be injured, 3952 will be arrested and $ 35
        million in property will be lost.

1965 - The U.S. Senate confirms the nomination of Thurgood Marshall as U.S.
        Solicitor General.

1980 - Reggie Jackson hits his 400th homer.

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