* Today in Black History - May 2 *
1844 - Elijah McCoy, who will become a master inventor, holder of
over 50 patents and source for the phrase "the real McCoy,"
is born in Ontario, Canada.
1920 - The first game of the National Negro Baseball League (NNL) is
played in Indianapolis, Indiana. The NNL was formed earlier
in the year by Andrew "Rube" Foster and a group of African
American baseball club owners to combat prejudice and
further enjoyment of the game.
1968 - The Poor People's March, led by Ralph D. Abernathy, begins as
caravans from all over the country leave for Washington, DC.,
to protest poverty and racial discrimination.
1992 - Los Angeles begins a massive cleanup and rebuilding effort
after three days of widespread civil unrest. The April 29
acquittal of four police officers in the 1991 beating of
motorist Rodney G. King fueled perceptions of unequal justice
for African Americans and sparked multiracial violence that
resulted in unprecedented figures of 58 deaths, over 2,000
injuries, over 600 fires, $1 billion in property damage and
spread to San Francisco, Las Vegas, Seattle, Atlanta,
Madison (Wisconsin), and Toronto.
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The source for these facts are "Encyclopedia Britannica,
"InfoBeat," "I, Too, Sing America - The African American
Book of Days," and independent research by the
Information Man.
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