* Today in Black History - August 28 *
1818 - Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable, trader and founder of Chicago,
joins the ancestors.
1921 - Second Pan-African Congress meets in London, Brussels and Paris,
from August 28 to September 6. Of the 113 delegates, 39 are
from Africa and 36 were from the United States.
1945 - Baseball commissioner Branch Rickey and future baseball great
Jackie Robinson meet. They will discuss the difficulties
Robinson, an African American athlete, would face in major-
league baseball. Robinson will receive $600 a month and a
$3,500 signing bonus to play for Montreal of the International
League. He would quickly move up and enjoy a brilliant career
with the Brooklyn Dodgers.
1955 - Fourteen-year-old Chicago youngster Emmett Till is kidnapped
in Money, Mississippi. Four days later he is found brutally
mutilated and murdered, allegedly for whistling at a white
woman. Two whites will be acquitted of the crime by an all-
white jury. The incident will receive national publicity and
highlight racism and brutality toward African Americans. This
incident is chronicled on tape # 1 in the "Eyes on the Prize"
series.
1962 - Seventy-five ministers and laymen--African American and whites--
primarily from the North, are arrested after prayer
demonstration in downtown Albany, Georgia.
1963 - Over 250,000 African-Americans and whites converge on the
Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington, the largest
single protest demonstration in United States history. The
march, organized to support sweeping civil rights measures, will
also be the occasion of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s most famous
speech, "I have a Dream."
1964 - A racially motivated civil disobedience riot occurs in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania.
1966 - The National Guard is mobilized to protect Milwaukee, Wisconsin
marchers protesting a judge's membership in lily-white club.
1968 - Rev. Channing E. Philips of Washington, DC, becomes the first
African American to have his/her name placed in nomination for
president by a major national party. Philips' name is placed
in nomination as the favorite son candidate by the District of
Columbia delegation at the Democratic convention in Chicago and
will receive 67 1/2 votes.
1984 - The Jacksons' Victory Tour broke the record for concert ticket
sales. The group surpasses the 1.1 million mark in only two
months.
1988 - Beah Richards wins an Emmy for outstanding guest performance in
the comedy series "Frank's Place." It is one of the many acting
distinctions for the Vicksburg, Mississippi native, including
her Academy Award nomination for best supporting actress in
"Guess Who's Coming to Dinner."
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