* Today in Black History - August 10 *
1827 - A race riot occurs in Cincinnati, Ohio. More than one
thousand African Americans leave the city for Canada.
1835 - A mob of white citizens and a hundred yoke of oxen pull
an African American school house into a swamp outside
the town of Canaan, New Hampshire.
1858 - Anna Julia Cooper is born in Raleigh, North Carolina.
She will become an influential African American
intellectual, educator, and founder of Frelinghuysen
University.
1867 - Famed Shakespearean actor, Ira Aldridge, joins the
ancestors.
1944 - A race riot occurs in Athens, Alabama.
1948 - Patti Austin, popular contemporary soul singer (The Real
Me), is born in the village of Harlem in New York City.
Fifty-three years after her first record contract, she
will be awarded her first Grammy, winning Best Jazz Vocal
Album for Avant Gershwin at the 50th annual Grammy Awards
on February 10, 2008.
1967 - Riddick Lamont Bowe is born in Brooklyn, New York. He will
become a professional boxer who will win the World
Heavyweight Title with an unanimous decision over Evander
Holyfield, and lose the title back to Holyfield in
November, 1993.
1980 - Composer and violinist, Clarence C. White, joins the
ancestors.
1981 - The Coca-Cola Bottling Company agrees to pump $34 million
into African American businesses and the African
American community, ending a national boycott called by
Operation PUSH.
1984 - Olympic athlete Carl Lewis repeats Jesse Owens' record of
four gold medals in the Los Angeles Olympic Games.
1985 - Michael Jackson buys ATV Music (including every Beatle
song) for $ 47 million.
1989 - General Colin Powell is nominated to be chairman, Joints
Chiefs of Staff. Upon confirmation, he will become the first
African American to hold the post.
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