*                   Today in Black History - August 28               *

1818 - Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable, trader and founder of Chicago,
        joins the ancestors.

1921 - Second Pan-African Congress meets in London, Brussels and Paris,
        from August 28 to September 6.   Of the 113 delegates, 39 are
        from Africa and 36 were from the United States.

1949 - Paul Robeson's scheduled singing appearance at the Lakeland
        picnic grounds near Peekskill in Westchester County, New York,
        is disrupted by a riot instigated and provoked by whites angry
        at Robeson's political stands.

1945 - Baseball commissioner Branch Rickey and future baseball great
        Jackie Robinson meet.  They will discuss the difficulties
        Robinson, an African American athlete, would face in major-
        league baseball.  Robinson will receive $600 a month and a
        $3,500 signing bonus to play for Montreal of the International
        League. He would quickly move up and enjoy a brilliant career
        with the Brooklyn Dodgers.

1955 - Fourteen-year-old Chicago youngster Emmett Till is kidnapped
        in Money, Mississippi.   Four days later he is found brutally
        mutilated and murdered, allegedly for whistling at a white
        woman.  Two whites will be acquitted of the crime by an all-
        white jury.   The incident will receive national publicity and
        highlight racism and brutality toward African Americans.  This
        incident is chronicled on tape # 1 in the "Eyes on the Prize"
        series.

1962 - Seventy-five ministers and laymen--African American and whites--
        primarily from the North, are arrested after prayer
        demonstration in downtown Albany, Georgia.

1963 - Over 250,000 African-Americans and whites converge on the
        Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington, the largest
        single protest demonstration in United States history. The
        march, organized to support sweeping civil rights measures, will
        also be the occasion of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s most famous
        speech, "I have a Dream."

1964 - A racially motivated civil disobedience riot occurs in Philadelphia,
        Pennsylvania.

1966 - The National Guard is mobilized to protect Milwaukee, Wisconsin
        marchers protesting a judge's membership in lily-white club.

1968 - Rev. Channing E. Philips of Washington, DC, becomes the first
        African American to have his/her name placed in nomination for
        president by a major national party.  Philips' name is placed
        in nomination as the favorite son candidate by the District of
        Columbia delegation at the Democratic convention in Chicago and
        will receive 67 1/2 votes.

1984 - The Jacksons' Victory Tour broke the record for concert ticket
        sales.  The group surpasses the 1.1 million mark in only two
        months.

1988 - Beah Richards wins an Emmy for outstanding guest performance in
        the comedy series "Frank's Place."  It is one of the many acting
        distinctions for the Vicksburg, Mississippi native, including
        her Academy Award nomination for best supporting actress in
        "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner."

______________________________________________________________
           Munirah Chronicle is edited by Brother Mosi Hoj
              "The TRUTH shall make you free"

   E-mail:   <[log in to unmask]>
   Archives: <http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/Munirah.html>
             <http://blackagenda.com/cybercolonies/index.htm>
   _____________________________________________________________
   To SUBSCRIBE send E-mail to: <[log in to unmask]>
   In the E-mail body place:  Subscribe Munirah Your FULL Name
   ______________________________________________________________
   Munirah(TM) is a trademark of Information Man. Copyright 2004,
   All Rights Reserved by the Information Man in association with
   CODE One Communications.