* 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 dies 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 - 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.
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.
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