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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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