* Today in Black History - August 27 *
1879 - African American publisher Robert Lee Van is born.
1909 - Lester Young is born into a musical family in Woodville,
Mississippi. Young was taught several instruments by
his father. As a child he played drums in the family's
band, but around 1928 he quit the group and switched to
tenor saxophone. His first engagements on this
instrument were with Art Bronson, in Phoenix, Arizona.
He stayed with Bronson until 1930, with a brief side
trip to play again with the family, then worked in and
around Minneapolis, Minnesota, with various bands. In
the spring of 1932 he joined the Original Blue Devils,
under the leadership of Walter Page, and was one of
several members of the band who joined Bennie Moten in
Kansas City towards the end of 1933. During the next
few years Young played in the bands of Moten, George E.
Lee, King Oliver, Count Basie, Fletcher Henderson, Andy
Kirk and others. He will join the ancestors on March 15,
1959.
1918 - Dr. Joseph L. Johnson is named minister to Liberia.
1963 - W.E.B. DuBois joins the ancestors at age 95 in Accra,
Ghana. He was one of America's foremost scholars, a
militant civil rights activist, founding father of the
NAACP, and leading proponent of Pan-Africanism.
1963 - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I Have A Dream"
speech in Washington, DC during the 1963 March on
Washington.
1966 - A racially motivated civil disobedience riot occurs in
Waukegan, Illinois.
1975 - Haile Selassie, "Lion of Judah" and deposed Ethiopian
emperor, joins the ancestors at age 83 in Addis Ababa.
1982 - Rickey Henderson steals 119th base of season breaking Lou
Brock's mark.
1983 - The second "March on Washington for Jobs, Peace, and
Freedom" is held.
1989 - 'Johnny B Goode' is performed by Chuck Berry for NASA
engineers and scientists in celebration of Voyager II's
encounter with the planet Neptune.
1991 - Central Life Insurance Company, the last surviving
African American owned insurance company in the state of
Florida, is ordered liquidated by a Florida circuit
court judge.
2000 - Tiger Woods becomes the first male golfer since Johnny
Miller in 1975 to successfully defend three titles in
one year when he wins the NEC World Invitational.
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