*	           Today in Black History - February 29                      *

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1892 - Augusta Christine Fells (later Savage) is born in Green Cove
	Springs, Florida. She will become a sculptor, teacher, and one 
	of the most influential forces among Harlem Renaissance 
	artists. She will join the ancestors on March 26, 1962.

1940 - Robert Sengstacke Abbott, newspaper editor and publisher of the 
	Chicago Defender, joins the ancestors in Chicago, Illinois.  
	His newspaper became a bold voice for African Americans in 
             the North, advocating during the wave of lynchings after World 
             War I the slogan, "if you must die, take at least one with 
             you," later simplified to "an eye for an eye." Abbott passes 
             away as his nephew, John Sengstacke, is establishing the 
             National Newspaper Publishers Association in Washington, DC.

1940 - In Hollywood, Hattie McDaniel receives an Academy Award for 
             best supporting actress for her role in "Gone With the Wind." 
             She is the first African American to win an Oscar.  Often 
             criticized for her portrayal of maids, she will say, "It's much 
             better to play a maid than to be one.  The only choice 
             permitted me is either to be a servant for $7 a week or portray 
             one for $700 a week."
 
1968 - The National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, convened 
             by President Lyndon B. Johnson after riots occur in major cities 
	throughout the United States, issues its report.  The
	commission will be called the "Kerner Commission" after its 
	chairman, Governor Otto Kerner of Illinois.  The report 
	concludes that white racism is one of the fundamental causes 
             of riots in the United States.  It also cited what was need to 
	avert future violence -- jobs, open housing laws and the 
	elimination of defacto school segregation. It also concluded 
	the United States was "headed toward two societies, one 
             Black and one White -- separate and unequal." A 30-year 
             update of the Kerner Commission reports "the divide between 
             rich and poor has become greater in the United States and
	the challenges from within more formidable."

1988 - South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu and other religious 
	leaders are arrested while kneeling near Parliament with a 
	petition against government bans on anti-apartheid groups.

1996 - Daniel Green is convicted in Lumberton, North Carolina, of 
	murdering James R. Jordan, the father of basketball star 
	Michael Jordan, during a 1993 roadside holdup. (Green will be 
	sentenced to life in prison; an accomplice who had testified 
	against him, Larry Demery, also will receive a life sentence.)

2004 - President Jean-Bertrand Aristide leaves Haiti, bowing to 
             pressure from a rebellion at home and governments abroad. 
             The administration of U.S president George W. Bush says it 
             welcomes Aristide's departure and that it was in the best 
             interests of Haiti. Aristide, Haiti's first democratically elected 
             president in 200 years of independence, flies to the Dominican 
             Republic and seeks asylum in Morocco, Taiwan or Panama.

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