*                 Today in Black History - August 1             *

1619 - Twenty African "Negroes" became the first blacks to land in
        Protestant America at Jamestown, Virginia.  Surviving evidence
        suggests that the twenty Africans were accorded the status of
        indentured servants.

1834 - Slavery is abolished in the British Empire by the royal ascent
        of the King of England after having been voted by Parliament
        the previous year.

1838 - British slaves in the Bahamas are emancipated.

1852 - San Francisco Methodists establish the first African American
        Zion Methodist Church.

1867 - African Americans vote for the first time in a state election,
        in Tennessee, helping the Republicans sweep the election.

1867 - General Philip H. Sheridan dismisses the board of aldermen in
        New Orleans and named new appointees, including several
        African Americans.

1868 - Governor Henry C. Warmoth of Louisiana endorses a joint
        resolution of the legislature calling for federal military
        aid.  Warmoth says there had been 150 political assassinations
        in June and July.

1874 - Charles Clinton Spaulding, businessman, is born.

1879 - Mary Eliza Mahoney graduates from the nursing program at the
        New England Hospital for Women and Children.  She is the first
        African American to graduate from a nursing school.

1895 - Benjamin E. Mays, renowned educator and president of Morehouse
        College, is born.

1914 - Marcus Garvey establishes the Universal Negro Movement
        Improvement and Conservation Association and African
        Communities' League, later shortened to UNIA.  In New York
        City six years later to the day, the UNIA will meet in Madison
        Square Garden as Garvey presents his "Back to Africa" plan and
        a formal Declaration of Rights for black people worldwide.

1918 - Theodore Juson Jemison, Sr., who will become president of the
        National Baptist Convention USA, is born in Selma, Alabama.

1920 - National convention of Marcus Garvey's Universal Negro
        Improvement Association opens in Liberty Hall in Harlem. The
        next night Garvey addresses twenty-five thousand Blacks in
        Madison Square Garden.  Garvey's nationalist movement reaches
        its height in 1920-21.

1925 - The National Bar Association, dedicated to "advance the science
        of jurisprudence, uphold the honor of the legal profession...
        and protect the civil and political rights of all citizens of
        the several states of the United States," is formally organized
        in Des Moines, Iowa by 12 African-American legal pioneers
        including George H. Woodson, S. Joe Brown, and Gertrude E. Rush.

1930 - Geoffrey Holder, dancer/actor (Annie, The Wiz), is born.

1936 - Benjamin E. Mays, who has been called "the greatest school
        master of his generation," is named president of Morehouse
        College.

1941 - Ronald H. Brown, former chairman of the Democratic National
        Committee, is born.

1943 - Race-related rioting erupts in New York City's Harlem section,
        resulting in several deaths.

1944 - Adam Clayton Powell is elected to congress (First African
        American congressman from the East.

1950 - American Bowling Congress ends its all-white-males rule.

1960 - Benin changes its name to Dahomey and proclaims its independence
        from France.

1960 - Chubby Checker's "The Twist" is released.  The song inspires
        the dance craze of the '60s.

1961 - Whitney Young Jr. is named executive director of the National
        Urban League.

1964 - Arthur Ashe becomes the first African American to be named to
        the U.S. Davis Cup tennis team.

1970 - "Black Enterprise" magazine is first published.

1970 - Willie Stargell, of the Pittsburgh Pirates, ties the record of
        5 extra base hits in a game.

1973 - Tempestt Bledsoe, actress, "The Cosby Show's" Vanessa Huxtable,
        is born.

1977 - Benjamin  L. Hooks becomes the Executive Director of the NAACP.

1979 - James Patterson Lyke is installed as auxiliary bishop of the
        Cleveland Diocese of the Roman Catholic Church.

1987 - Mike Tyson defeats Tony Tucker to become undisputed Heavyweight
        Boxing Champion.

1992 - The Supreme Court permits the administration to continue its
        special interdiction policy by which the U.S. Coast Guard
        patrols international waters near Haiti to prevent Haitian
        citizens from escaping from their country, and Haiti is the
        only country in the world to receive such treatment by the
        United States.

1992 - Gail Devers wins the women's 100 meters at the Barcelona Summer
        Games.

1993 - Ronald H. Brown, former chairman of the Democratic National
        Committee, is appointed head of the Department of Commerce by
        President-elect Bill Clinton.

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        The source for these facts are "Encyclopedia Britannica,
        "InfoBeat," "I, Too, Sing America - The African American
        Book of Days," "Before the Mayflower", "Black Firsts" and
        independent research by the Information Man.
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