*		    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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