*                 Today in Black History - July 29                 *

1895 - The First National Convention of Black Women is held in Boston,
        Massachusetts.

1909 - Chester Himes is born in Jefferson City, Missouri.  He will
        become a noted crime novelist whose books "If He Hollers Let
        Him Go", "Come Back Charleston Blue", and "Cotton Comes to
        Harlem" explore the underbelly of the American dream and
        introduce "Gravedigger Jones" and "Coffin Ed Johnson" to the
        reading public.

1919 - The first convention of the National Association of Negro
        Musicians is held in Chicago. Illinois.  NANM's charter members
        include Clarence Cameron White, who called for the formation of
        the association.  R. Nathaniel Dett, Nora Holt, and Florence
        Cole Talbert among others.  NANM will be active in furthering
        African American music and performers, and award its first
        scholarship to a young Marian Anderson.

1942 - William Dean, Jr., plans a boycott unless African Americans are
        permitted to play on major league baseball teams.

1970 - Six days of race rioting start in Hartford, Connecticut, leaving
        one person dead.

1974 - Lou Brock of the St. Louis Cardinals steals his 700th base.

1988 - The South African government bans the anti-apartheid film "Cry
        Freedom".

1991 - Physician Bernard A. Harris, Jr. becomes a full-fledged astronaut.
        Harris, who joined NASA's Johnson Space Center in 1987 as a
        clinical scientist and flight surgeon, is now eligible for future
        flight assignments.

1996 - At the Atlanta Olympics, Carl Lewis wins the gold medal in the
        long jump, becoming only the fifth Olympian to win gold medals
        in four straight games.

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        The source for these facts are "Encyclopedia Britannica,
        "InfoBeat," "I, Too, Sing America - The African American
        Book of Days," "Before the Mayflower", "Black Firsts" and
        independent research by the Information Man.
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