*                   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, dies.

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 said 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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