*      Today in Black History - July 27                *

1816 - Fort Apalachicola, a Seminole fort in Florida, is attacked by U.S.
        troops.  The Fort, held by fugitive slaves and Indians, is taken
        after a siege of several days.  The fort is destroyed, punishing
        the Seminoles for harboring runaway slaves.

1880 - Inventor, A.P. Abourne, is awarded a patent for refining coconut oil.

1919 - Chicago race riots kill 23 African Americans, 15 whites, and injure
        more than 500, despite the warnings of Ida B. Wells-Barnett to city
        officials to improve conditions for African Americans in the city.

1937 - Woodie King, Jr. is born in Detroit, Michigan.  A drama critic,
        producer, and dramatist, he will be best known as the artistic
        director of the New Federal Theatre at the Henry Street Settlement,
        for his adaptation of Langston Hughes' "Weary Blues" and "Simply
        Blues" for the stage, and for producing Ntozake Shange's "For
        Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When Rainbow is Enuf" and
        "Checkmates", featuring Denzel Washington.

1950 - Albert L. Hinton joins the ancestors, becoming the first African
        American reporter to lose his life in a theater of military
        operation, when an Army transport plane carrying him crashes into
        the Sea of Japan while enroute to Korea.

1962 - Martin Luther King, Jr., is jailed in Albany, Georgia for
        participating in a civil rights demonstration.

1967 - In the wake of urban rioting, President Johnson appoints the Kerner
        Commission to assess the causes of the violence, the same day black
        militant H. Rap Brown said in Washington that violence was "as
        American as cherry pie."

1968  - A racially motivated disturbance occurs in Gary, Indiana.

1984 - Reverend C.L. Franklin joins the ancestors in Detroit, Michigan,
        after a long coma sustained after being shot by a burglar in his
        home.  He was the founder of the New Bethel Baptist Church, where
        his radio sermons drew a nationwide audience and where the singing
        career of his daughter, Aretha, began.

1999 - Harry "Sweets" Edison, a master of the jazz trumpet who was a
        mainstay of the Count Basie band, joins the ancestors in Columbus,
        Ohio at the age of 83. In a career spanning more than 60 years,
        Edison had that rarest of qualities, an utterly individual style.
        Although his sound was not especially unique, his articulation, his
        ability to invest each note with a driving sense of swing, was
        completely his own. It didn't matter whether he was playing with
        Basie, with Frank Sinatra or Oscar Peterson, or on any of his
        innumerable recording sessions; his solos, stamped with his
        singular phrasing, always popped out of the mix.

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