* Today in Black History - February 29 *
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1892 - Augusta Christine Fells (later Savage) is born in Green Cove
Springs, Florida. She will become a sculptor, teacher, and one
of the most influential forces among Harlem Renaissance
artists. She will join the ancestors on March 26, 1962.
1940 - Robert Sengstacke Abbott, newspaper editor and publisher of the
Chicago Defender, joins the ancestors in Chicago, Illinois.
His newspaper became a bold voice for African Americans in
the North, advocating during the wave of lynchings after World
War I the slogan, "if you must die, take at least one with
you," later simplified to "an eye for an eye." Abbott passes
away as his nephew, John Sengstacke, is establishing the
National Newspaper Publishers Association in Washington, DC.
1940 - In Hollywood, Hattie McDaniel receives an Academy Award for
best supporting actress for her role in "Gone With the Wind."
She is the first African American to win an Oscar. Often
criticized for her portrayal of maids, she will say, "It's much
better to play a maid than to be one. The only choice
permitted me is either to be a servant for $7 a week or portray
one for $700 a week."
1968 - The National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, convened
by President Lyndon B. Johnson after riots occur in major cities
throughout the United States, issues its report. The
commission will be called the "Kerner Commission" after its
chairman, Governor Otto Kerner of Illinois. The report
concludes that white racism is one of the fundamental causes
of riots in the United States. It also cited what was need to
avert future violence -- jobs, open housing laws and the
elimination of defacto school segregation. It also concluded
the United States was "headed toward two societies, one
Black and one White -- separate and unequal." A 30-year
update of the Kerner Commission reports "the divide between
rich and poor has become greater in the United States and
the challenges from within more formidable."
1988 - South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu and other religious
leaders are arrested while kneeling near Parliament with a
petition against government bans on anti-apartheid groups.
1996 - Daniel Green is convicted in Lumberton, North Carolina, of
murdering James R. Jordan, the father of basketball star
Michael Jordan, during a 1993 roadside holdup. (Green will be
sentenced to life in prison; an accomplice who had testified
against him, Larry Demery, also will receive a life sentence.)
2004 - President Jean-Bertrand Aristide leaves Haiti, bowing to
pressure from a rebellion at home and governments abroad.
The administration of U.S president George W. Bush says it
welcomes Aristide's departure and that it was in the best
interests of Haiti. Aristide, Haiti's first democratically elected
president in 200 years of independence, flies to the Dominican
Republic and seeks asylum in Morocco, Taiwan or Panama.
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