* 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 Haywood (later Cooper) is born a slave in
Raleigh, North Carolina. She will become an author,
educator, speaker and one of the most prominent African
American scholars in United States history. She will not
only be an author and educator, but she will be a speaker
as well. Some notable speeches will be delivered at the
World's Congress of Representative Women in Chicago in
1893 (in which she will be one of three black women
invited to speak) and the first Pan-African Conference in
London in 1900 (when she will deliver a paper entitled
"The Negro Problem in America"). In 1914, at the age of
56, she will begin courses for her doctoral degree at
Columbia University, but will be forced to interrupt her
studies in 1915 when she adopts the five children of her
late half-brother upon their mother's death. Later on she
will be able to transfer her credits to the University of
Paris-Sorbonne, which however will not accept her Columbia
thesis, an edition of "Le Pèlerinage de Charlemagne." Over
the course of a decade she will be able to research and
compose her dissertation, completing her coursework in 1924.
She will defend her thesis, "The Attitude of France on the
Question of Slavery Between 1789 and 1848" in 1925. Upon
receiving her Ph.D in history from the University of Paris-
Sorbonne in 1924, she will become the fourth African
American woman to earn a doctoral degree (age 65). She will
be a prominent member of Washington, D.C.'s African American
community until she joins the ancestors on February 27, 1964
at the age of 105.
1867 - Famed Shakespearean actor, Ira Aldridge, joins the
ancestors.
1944 - A race riot occurs in Athens, Alabama.
1950 - Patti Austin is born in the village of Harlem in New York
City. She will become a sophisticated vocalist whose style
will be steeped in jazz. She will make her performing debut
at the age of four, singing a song called "Teach Me Tonight"
on the stage of Harlem's famed Apollo Theater during an
appearance by vocalist Dinah Washington, who was also
Austin's godmother. Something of a child star, she will
appear on Sammy Davis, Jr.'s television variety show, work
on stage with such stars as Ray Bolger of The Wizard of Oz,
and when she is nine, goes to Europe with a group led by
bandleader Quincy Jones, who will become an immensely
influential figure both on her own career and on the world
of Black popular music generally.
1967 - Riddick Lamont Bowe is born in the borough of Brooklyn in New
York City. He will become a professional boxer who will win
the World Heavyweight Title with an unanimous decision over
Evander Holyfield in November 1992, 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 when he competes 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.
2016 - John Saunders, long-time sports announcer for ESPN/ABC joins
the ancestors at the age of 61.
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