*                   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, Alexander P. Ashbourne, 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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