* 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 - Brooklyn Dodgers' owner 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."
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