*		    Today in Black History - August 10         *

1827 - A race riot occurs in Cincinnati, Ohio. More than one 
	thousand African Americans leave the city for Canada.

1835 - A mob of white citizens and a hundred yoke of oxen pull 
	an African American school house into a swamp outside 
	the town of Canaan, New Hampshire.

1858 - Anna Julia Cooper is born in Raleigh, North Carolina.  
	She will become an influential African American 
	intellectual, educator, and founder of Frelinghuysen 
	University. 

1867 - Famed Shakespearean actor, Ira Aldridge, joins the 
	ancestors.

1944 - A race riot occurs in Athens, Alabama.

1948 - Patti Austin, popular contemporary soul singer (The Real
	Me), is born in the village of Harlem in New York City.
	Fifty-three years after her first record contract, she 
	will be awarded her first Grammy, winning Best Jazz Vocal
	Album for Avant Gershwin at the 50th annual Grammy Awards
	on February 10, 2008.

1967 - Riddick Lamont Bowe is born in Brooklyn, New York. He will
	become a professional boxer who will win the World 
	Heavyweight Title with an unanimous decision over Evander
	Holyfield, and lose the title back to Holyfield in 
	November, 1993.

1980 - Composer and violinist, Clarence C. White, joins the 
	ancestors.

1981 - The Coca-Cola Bottling Company agrees to pump $34 million
	into African American businesses and the African 
	American community, ending a national boycott called by 
	Operation PUSH.          

1984 - Olympic athlete Carl Lewis repeats Jesse Owens' record of
	four gold medals in the Los Angeles Olympic Games. 

1985 - Michael Jackson buys ATV Music (including every Beatle 
	song) for $ 47 million.

1989 - General Colin Powell is nominated to be chairman, Joints
	Chiefs of Staff, becoming the first African American to 
	hold the post.

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