*                   Today in Black History - August 2                   *

1847 - William A. Leidesdorff, born in the Danish West Indies to a Danish
        father and a Black native mother, opens the first commercial
        steamship service on San Francisco Bay.

1920 - Marcus Garvey presents his "Back To Africa" program in New York City.

1924 - James Baldwin is born in New York City.  He will become one of the
        most prolific and influential African American authors of fiction
        ("Go Tell it on the Mountain", "Another Country", "Giovanni's Room"),
        drama ("Blues for Mr. Charlie", "Amen Corner"), and essay collections
        ("Notes of a Native Son", "The Fire Next Time").

1945 - Jewell Jackson (later McCabe) is born in Washington, DC.  She will
        become president of the Coalition of 100 Black Women, whose mission
        is to develop a forum for African American women leaders.

1946 - Bob Beamon is born.  He will become a track and field star.  Specializing
        in the long jump, he will win Olympic gold in 1968 for a jump of 29' 2"
        (8.9m).

1951 - While manning his machine gun during a surprise attack on his platoon,
        private first class William Henry Thompson of Company M, Twenty-fourth
        Infantry Regiment, becomes the first African American to earn the
        Congressional Medal of Honor in the Korean conflict.

1964 - A racially motivated disturbance begins in Jersey City, New Jersey.

1966 - The Charles R. Drew Postgraduate Medical School, later Charles R. Drew
        University of Medicine and Science, is chartered in Los Angeles,
        California.  It is the only African American-focused medical school
        west of the Mississippi.

1967 - "In the Heat of the Night", starring Sidney Portier and Rod Steiger,
        premieres.

1967 - Claude A. Barnett, who founded the Associated Negro Press, joins the
        ancestors at the age of 78.

1980 - Thomas "Hit Man" Hearns wins the WBA Welterweight title. This is one
        of five weight classes in which he has won a boxing title, making him
        the first African American to win boxing titles in five different
        weight classes.

1982 - Jackie Robinson, the first African American to break the color barrier
        in major league baseball, is honored by a commemorative stamp issued
        by the Postal Service, the fifth in its Black Heritage USA series.

1986 - Jackie Joyner-Kersee (United States) sets record for the heptathlon
        (7161 pts).

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