*                   Today in Black History - August 26                *

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 joins the ancestors in Centralia, Washington.
        An African American 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 - Daniel Robert "Dan" 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.

1998 - Attorney General Janet Reno reopens the investigation of the
        assassination of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.,
        focusing on two allegations of a conspiracy beyond James Earl Ray.

2000 - Sir Lynden Pindling, the father of Bahamas independence, joins the
        ancestors after succumbing to prostate cancer. Pindling had led the
        black Progressive Liberal Party to victory in 1967. Sir Lynden
        ruled the Bahamas for 25 years. He resigned from the House of
        Assembly in July 1997, ending 41 years of unbroken service as a
        legislator.

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