* Today in Black History - August 26 *
1847 - Liberia is proclaimed an independent republic.
1874 - Sixteen African Americans are lynched in the state of
Tennessee.
1900 - Hale Woodruff is born in Cairo, Illinois. He will study art
in the United States, Paris and fresco painting with Diego
Rivera in Mexico. He will also start the influential Atlanta
University shows for African American artists in the 1940's.
1905 - George Washington dies in Centralia, Washington. A settler
of a vast land claim at the junction of the Shockumchuck and
Chehalis rivers in 1851, Washington endured schemes of white
settlers to take his land and the Indian Wars of 1853 to
found the town of Centerville (later Centralia), Washington,
in 1875.
1943 - William L. Dawson is elected as the Black Democratic Party
Vice President candidate.
1947 - Don Bankhead becomes the first African American pitcher in
major-league baseball. The Brooklyn Dodger hurler helps his
own cause by slamming a home run in his first appearance at
the plate.
1948 - Valerie Simpson (Ashford) is born in the Bronx, New York City.
She will become an accomplished singer, composer, and producer.
She will marry Nick Ashford and perform with him for many
years.
1960 - Jazz saxophonist Branford Marsalis is born in New Orleans,
Louisiana. He will begin his musical career with Art Blakey &
the Jazz Messengers, later playing with his brother Wynton's
quintet, will record with Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, and
Sting, and become musical director for the Tonight Show in
1992.
1982 - Rickey Henderson ties Lou Brock's 1974 record of 118 stolen
bases in a season, as the Milwaukee Brewers down the Kansas
City Royals, 10-3.
1985 - Baltimore Oriole Eddie Murray knocks in 9 RBIs in a game vs the
California Angels.
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