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*		    Today in Black History - August 4            *

1810 - Robert Purvis is born.  He will become an abolitionist and
	will be on the first board of managers of the American 
	Anti-Slavery Society.

1870 - White conservatives suppress the African American vote and
	capture	the Tennessee legislature in an election marred 
	by assassinations and widespread violence.  The campaign
	effectively ends Radical Reconstruction in North Carolina.
	The conservative legislature will impeach Governor Holden
	on December 14.

1875 - The Convention of Colored Newspapermen is held in 
	Cincinnati, Ohio. The meeting is attended by J. Sella 
	Martin of the "True Republican", Mifflin W. Gibbs, former
	publisher of California's "Mirror of the Times" 
	representing the "Pacific Appeal", Henry McNeal Turner of 
	Philadelphia's "Christian Recorder", the San Francisco 
	"Elevator's" L. H. Douglass, and Henry Scroggins of the 
	"American Citizen" (Lexington, Kentucky).  Chairman P.B.S.
	Pinchback states the aim of the national organization: "to
	make colored people's newspapers self-sustaining."  At the
	time of the convention, Martin's "New Era" and Frederick 
	Douglass' "North Star" are among eight African American 
	newspaper failures.

1885 - W.C. Carter invents the umbrella stand.

1890 - Sam T. Jack's play "Creoles" opens in Haverhill, 
	Massachusetts. It is the first time African American women
	are featured as performers on the stage. 

1891 - George Washington Williams dies in Blackpool, England at 
	the age of 41. He was the first major African American 
	historian and published his major work, "History of the 
	Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880" in 1883.

1896 - W.S. Grant patents a curtain rod support.

1897 - Henry Rucker is appointed collector of Internal Revenue for
	Georgia.

1901 - Daniel Louis Armstrong is born in New Orleans, Louisiana. 
	He will become a jazz musician specializing in the cornet 
	and trumpet. He will win a Grammy Award for his rendition 
	of "Hello, Dolly!" in 1964.  He will be awarded the 
	Lifetime Achievement Award in 1971. Some of his other hits
	will be "It's a Wonderful World," "Mack the Knife," and 
	"Blueberry Hill." He will also be featured in films: "The 
	Five Pennies," "The Glenn Miller Story," "Hello Dolly!," 
	and "High Society." He will be referred to as the American
	ambassador of good will and will be inducted into the Rock
	and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990. Throughout his life, he will
	resent the nickname "Satchmo", short for satchel mouth.

1916 - The United States purchases the Danish Virgin Islands for 
	$25 million. 

1931 - Dr. Daniel Hale Williams, heart surgeon, founder of 
	Chicago's Provident Hospital, joins the ancestors. 

1936 - "Long" John Woodruff, of the University of Pittsburgh, wins
	a gold medal in the 800-meter run at the Olympic Summer 
	Games in Berlin, Germany. He, like Jesse Owens (who had won
	his second medal earlier in the day), will be snubbed by 
	Adolph Hitler, who believes that blacks are incapable of 
	athletic achievement. 

1936 - Jesse Owens sets a new Olympic running broad jump record by
	leaping 26' 5 5/16".

1953 - The movement of African American families into the Trumbull 
	Park housing project in Chicago, Illinois, triggers 
	virtually continuous riot conditions which will last more 
	than three years and require the assignment of more than 
	one thousand policemen to keep order.

1962 - Nelson Mandela is captured and jailed by South African 
	police.

1964 - James E. Chaney and two other civil rights workers' bodies 
	are found in an earthen dam on a farm in Philadelphia, 
	Mississippi. They had been missing since June 21.  The FBI
	says that they had been murdered on the night of their 
	disappearance by segregationists.  Eighteen whites, 
	including several police officers, were charged with 
	conspiracy to deprive the victims of their civil rights.

1969 - Willie Stargell is the first to hit a home run out of Dodger
	Stadium.

1980 - Maury Wills is named manager of the Seattle Mariners. He is
	the third African American to be named a major league 
	manager. 

1985 - California Angel Rod Carew gets his 3,000th base hit.

1996 - On the final day of the Atlanta Olympics, Josia Thugwane 
	became the first black South African to win a gold medal as
	he finished first in the marathon.

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