*		Today in Black History - August 11          *

1841 - African American abolitionist Frederick Douglass delivers 
	his first public speech before the Massachusetts Anti-
	Slavery Society in Nantucket.  Having escaped from 
	slavery only three years earlier, Douglass is legally a 
	fugitive when he delivers his speech about his life as a
	slave. The Massachusetts Society immediately hires 
	Douglass as a full-time lecturer.

1873 - John Rosamond Johnson is born in Jacksonville, Florida.  
	He will, with Bob Cole, be part of the famous vaudeville 
	team Cole & Johnson. He will best be remembered as a 
	composer who, with his brother James Weldon Johnson 
	providing the lyrics, will write "Lift Every Voice and 
	Sing." He will join the ancestors on November 11, 1954. 	

1921 - Alexander Murray Palmer Haley is born in Ithaca, New York. 
	He will become an award-winning author, most notably for his 
	authorship with Malcolm X of the latter's autobiography and 
	for "Roots", which will win a special Pulitzer Prize.  
	"Roots" will be his most successful work, selling over 1
	million copies and contributing to a new interest in 
	African American history. He will join the ancestors on
	February 10, 1992 in Seattle, Washington.

1925 - Carl T. Rowan is born in Ravencroft, Tennessee.   He will 
	become one of America's most outspoken journalist with 
	NBC News and The Chicago Daily News.  As an author, he 
	will write "Dream Makers, Dream Breakers:The World of 
	Justice Thurgood Marshall," "Breaking Barriers," "Wait 
	Till Next Year," "Go South in Sorrow," and "South of 
	Freedom."  He will be appointed to the positions of 
	Director: U.S. Information Agency and U.S. Ambassador to
	Finland. He will join the ancestors on September 23, 2000.

1942 - Otis Taylor is born in Houston, Texas. He will become a 
	professional football player with the Kansas City Chiefs, 
	playing wide receiver. He will be the UPI AFC Player of 
	the Year in 1971, and will help lead his team to Super 
	Bowl I and a victory in Super Bowl IV.

1948 - Amanda Randolph appears on the television series "The 
	Laytons" on the Dumont Network.  She and Bob Howard of 
	CBS' "The Bob Howard Show", which premiered earlier in 
	the summer, are the first African Americans to be 
	featured in a national network television series.

1949 - Peter Murray Marshall of New York is appointed to the 
	American Medical Association's House of Delegates.

1960 - The African country of Chad declares independence from 
	France.

1962 - After integrated groups try to use the facilities, police 
	close the Municipal parks and library in Albany, Georgia.

1964 - A racially motivated disturbance occurs in Paterson, New 
	Jersey.

1965 - Racially motivated disturbances start in the Watts section
	of Los Angeles, California.   In six days, the death toll
	will stand at 34, 1,032 persons will be injured, 3952 will
	be arrested and $ 35 million in property will be lost.

1965 - The U.S. Senate confirms the nomination of Thurgood 
	Marshall as U.S. Solicitor General.

1980 - Reggie Jackson hits his 400th homer.

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