* Today in Black History - August 7 *
1846 - Frederick Douglass is speaker at the World's Temperance convention
in London, England.
1904 - Ralph Johnson Bunche is born in Detroit, Michigan. A political
social scientist, he will achieve fame as the first African
American Nobel Prize winner (1950) for his role as U.N. mediator of
the armistice agreements between Israel and her Arab neighbors in
the Middle East wars of 1948, for which he will be awarded the
NAACP's Spingarn Medal (1949). He will serve as the undersecretary
of the United Nations from 1955 until he joins the ancestors in
1971.
1932 - Abebe Bikila of Ethiopia becomes the first man to win the Olympic
marathon twice (running barefoot).
1936 - Rahsaan Roland Kirk is born in Columbus, Ohio. Blind from the age
of two, he will begin playing the tenor saxophone professionally in
Rhythm & Blues bands before turning to jazz. He will be best known
for his ability to play more than one instrument at once, his self-
made jazz instruments, and for his creative improvisational
skills. Rahsaan will also become an activist in getting support for
what he will term "Black Classical Music." He will participate in
several takeovers of television talk shows during which he would
demand more exposure for black jazz artists.
1945 - Alan Page, who will be a 6-time NFL All Pro, Professional Football
Hall of Famer, 1971 NFL Player of the Year, and Minnesota State
Supreme Court justice(selected 1992), is born in Canton, Ohio.
1946 - First coin bearing portrait of an African American (Booker T.
Washington) is authorized.
1948 - Alice Coachman becomes the first woman (and first African American
woman) to win an Olympic gold medal in Track and Field competition
(the high jump) during the Summer Games in London. She also will be
the only American woman to win a track event that year. She will
later become inducted into the National Track and Field Hall of
Fame.
1954 - Charles H. Mahoney is confirmed by the Senate and becomes the first
African American to serve as a full-time delegate to the United
Nations.
1960 - African American and white students stage kneel-in demonstrations in
Atlanta churches.
1966 - A racially motivated disturbance starts in Lansing, Michigan.
1970 - Four persons, including the presiding judge, are killed in
courthouse shoot-out in San Rafael, Marin County, California.
Police charge that activist Angela Davis helped provide the weapons
used by the convicts and will be sought for arrest and become one
of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's "most wanted criminals."
She will be arrested in New York City in October 1970, returned to
California to face charges of kidnapping, murder, and conspiracy
and will be acquitted of all charges by an all-white jury.
1989 - Congressman George Thomas "Mickey" Leland, members of his staff and
State Department officials die in a plane crash in the mountains
near Gambela, Ethiopia. Leland, the Democratic successor to
Barbara Jordan, had established the Select Committee on Hunger in
1984 and was chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus during the
99th Congress. A successful campaigner for stronger sanctions
against South Africa, Leland was on a visit to a United Nations
refugee camp at the time he joins the ancestors.
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