*                   Today in Black History - August 15                  *

1824 - Freed American slaves establish a settlement in West Africa that
        will eventually become the country of Liberia.

1843 - The National Black Convention meets at Buffalo, New York, with some
        seventy delegates from twelve states.  The highlight of the convention
        will be a stirring address by Henry Highland Garnet, a twenty seven
        year old Presbyterian pastor who calls for a slave revolt and a
        general slave strike.  Amos G. Beman of New Haven, Connecticut, is
        elected president of the convention.

1900 - Riots erupt in New York City as a white plainclothes policeman is
        killed in a fight with an African American man. It is the fourth
        racial riot in the city's history.

1906 - At the second meeting of the Niagara Movement at Harpers Ferry, West
        Virginia, W.E.B. DuBois demands equal citizenship rights for African
        Americans, saying, "We will not be satisfied to take one jot or title
        less than our full manhood rights..."

1925 - Oscar Peterson is born in Montreal (Quebec), Canada.  Classically
        trained in the piano, he will work with top Canadian jazz bands until
        1949, when he will first appear in New York City's Carnegie hall. He
        will be recognized as a jazz innovator who forges a synthesis of bop
        and swing into his own unique style.

1931 - Roy Wilkins joins the NAACP as assistant secretary.

1931 - The Spingarn Medal is awarded to Richard B. Harrison for his
Portrayal
        of "De Lawd" in "The Green Pastures."

1935 - Vernon Eulion Jordan, Jr,  is born. He will become a civil rights
        activist and the head of the National Urban League.

1938 - Maxine Waters is born in St. Louis, Missouri.  A longtime California
        state legislator, in 1990, she will be the second African American woman
        from California elected to the United States Congress.

1945 - Gene Upshaw is born.  He will become a professional football player
and
        a guard for the Oakland Raiders.  After retirement from football, he will
        become the longtime president of the NFL Players Association.

1960 - The Republic of the Congo gains independence from France.

1962 - The Shady Grove Baptist Church is burned in Leesburg, Georgia.

1964 - A racially motivated disturbance occurs in Dixmoor, (a Chicago
suburb)
        Illinois.

1964 - Ralph Boston of the United States, sets the then long jump record at
        27' 3".

1975 - Joanne Little is acquitted of murder charges in the August 27, 1974,
        killing of a white jailer. The defense said she stabbed the jailer with
        an ice pick after he made sexual advances.

1979 - Andrew Young resigns under pressure as U.N. ambassador after
unauthorized
        meeting with representatives of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
        His resignation creates a storm of controversy and divides the African
        American and Jewish communities.

1999 - Tiger Woods wins the PGA Championship, becoming the youngest player
to
        win two majors since Seve Ballesteros.

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