*      Today in Black History - August 14                *

1862 - President Lincoln receives the first group of African Americans
        to confer with a U.S. president on a matter of public policy.
        He urges African Americans to emigrate to Africa or Central
        America and is bitterly criticized by Northern African Americans.

1876 - Prairie View State University is founded.

1883 - Ernest Everett Just is born in Charleston, South Carolina. After
        graduating magna cum laude from Dartmouth College in 1907, he will
        become a teacher at Howard University.  He will spend summers
        working as a research assistant at the Marine Biological Laboratory
        at Woods Hole, Massachusetts. He will receive his Ph.D. from the
        University of Chicago in 1916. He will become a noted marine
        biologist and the head of the physiology department at Howard.
        He will be awarded the NAACP's first Spingarn Medal (1915) for his
        research in biology.  In his early days at Howard University, he
        will be one of the founders of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity and faculty
        advisor.  He will join the ancestors in October, 1941.

1908 - A race riot occurs in Springfield Illinois and will last for
        five days.  Army troops are called out.  This riot will stir
        the conscience of American civil rights leaders and will lead
        to the founding of the NAACP.

1929 - Dick Tiger Ihetu is born in Nkwerre Orlu, Imo State, Nigeria. He
        will become a professional boxer and a world champion middleweight
        from 1962-63 and 1964.  He will be the world lightweight champion
        from 1965 to 1968.  He will be elected to the International Boxing
        Hall of Fame.

1938 - Niara Sudarkasa is born in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. She will be
        an anthropologist and groundbreaking educator, becoming the first
        African American professor to receive tenure at the University of
        Michigan, and the first woman president of Lincoln University, a
        traditionally male African American college.

1946 - Larry Graham is born.  He will become a musician (bassist) and
        singer.  He will perform with Sly and the Family Stone and Graham
        Central Station.  He will leave Graham Central Station, start a
        solo career, and will be known for his songs, "One in a Million"
        and "I Never Forgot Your Eyes."

1946 - Antonio Fargas is born in the Bronx in New York City.  He will
        become an actor and will be best known for his role as "Huggy
        Bear" in the TV series, "Starsky & Hutch."

1956 - Jackee Harry is born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.  She will
        become an actress and will star as "Sandra" in the television series
        "227" and the adoptive mother of one of a pair of twins in the
        television series "Sister, Sister."

1959 - Earvin Johnson is born in Lansing, Michigan.  Better known
        as "Magic," he will lead Michigan State University to the NCAA
        championship in 1979. After two years of college, he enter the NBA
        and be picked first in the draft by the Los Angeles Lakers. He will
        become one of the best point guards in NBA history. After retiring
        from basketball, he will concentrate on his business ventures and
        will have success developing stadium-style movie theaters in inner
        city underserved areas.

1968 - Halle Berry is born.  She will become Miss World USA in 1986 and
        will have a successful acting career, starring in the mini-series
        "Queen" and the movie "Boomerang."

1970 - City University of New York (CUNY) inaugurates its open admissions
        policy designed to increase the number of poor and minority
        students.

1971 - Bob Gibson, of the St. Louis Cardinals, pitches a no-hitter against
        the Pittsburgh Pirates.  It is the first no-hitter against the
        Pirates since 1955.

1992 - The White House announces that the Pentagon will begin emergency
        airlifts of food to Somalia to alleviate mass deaths by starvation.

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