*                   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.

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 a year when he wins the
        NEC World Invitational.

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