*		    Today in Black History - August 17          *

1847 - Archibald Henry Grimke' is born into slavery on a 
	plantation near Charleston, South Carolina.  His white 
	father, Henry Grimke', was of the famous Grimke' family 
	which included abolitionist sisters Sarah and Angelina.  
	After being freed in 1852, Archibald will have a 
	distinguished career as a lawyer (Harvard Law, 1874), 
	political delegate, newspaper publisher ("The Hub" in 
	Boston), and author. 

1887 - Marcus Mosiah Garvey is born in St. Ann's Bay, Jamaica.  
	He will become a charismatic black nationalist and 
	founder of the UNIA, an organization dedicated to 
	education, racial pride, and African development.  He 
	will also found the Black Star Line, an African American 
	owned steamship company established to link new-world 
	Blacks with their African motherland.  Garvey and several 
	associates will be railroaded by the U.S. government for 
	"mail fraud" in connection with the sale of Black Star 
	stock.  Garvey will be convicted and serve five years in 
	federal prison. The U.S. government trumps up these 
	charges against Marcus Garvey because he was a threat to 
	the status quo of the "Negro people" of America. That is 
	why he is deported instead of being forced to serve his 
	complete sentence here. The U.S. government simply wanted 
	to get rid of him. He will join the ancestors on June 10, 
	1940 in London, England.

1920 - Isaiah Boyd Perry is born in Money Point (Norfolk), Virginia.
	He will grow up in Hampton, Virginia and will become the 
	first faculty member of Hampton Institute to graduate from 
	the Hampton Institute Laboratory High School (George P. 
	Phenix), graduate from the Hampton Institute Trade School, 
	graduate with a Bachelor of Science Degree, and a Master of
	Science Degree and join the "Quarter of the Century Club" 
	as a faculty member with twenty five years of service. He 
	will join the ancestors in 1971.

1931 - A'Lelia Walker Robinson joins the ancestors and residents of 
	Harlem and New York City mourn her death. The daughter of 
	Madame C.J. Walker, she had distinguished herself as hostess
	of the "Dark Tower" on Harlem's West 136th Street, a meeting
	place for Harlem Renaissance poets, philosophers, and 
	artists such as W.E.B. DuBois, Langston Hughes, and Aaron 
	Douglas, as well as European nobility and members of New 
	York's social register.

1939 - Luther Allison is born in Widener, Arkansas.  He will become 
	a blues guitarist.  Allison will spend his formative musical
	years in Chicago jamming with the West Side's best, 
	including Magic Sam, Otis Rush, and Freddie King. His first
	recording, "Love Me Mama" (Delmark, 1969), is considered a 
	blues classic.  Allison will come to national prominence 
	with blistering performances at the 1969 and 1970 Ann Arbor
	Blues Festivals, wowing young rock fans with his scorching 
	guitar solos and soulful vocals. He will become the first 
	blues act to sign with Motown Records in 1971, subsequently
	releasing three records for the label.  He will tour 
	nationally throughout the 1970s before relocating to Paris 
	in the early 1980s where he will continue to release albums
	(many issued only in Europe) and tour incessantly, 
	eventually becoming a European blues superstar. He will join
	the ancestors on August 12, 1997.

1960 - Gabon declares its independence from France.

1984 - Roberto Clemente becomes the second baseball player to be 
	featured on a U.S. postage stamp.

1988 - Butch Reynolds of the United States sets the 400 meter 
	record (43.29) in Zurich, Switzerland.

1990 - Pearl Bailey, Broadway actress and singer, joins the 
	ancestors at the age of 72 after succumbing to a heart 
	attack in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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