* 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, dies.
1944 - A race riot occurs in Athens, Alabama.
1948 - Patti Austin, popular contemporary soul singer (The Real Me),
is born.
1967 - Riddick Bowe, boxer, who will win World Heavyweight Title
with unanimous decision over Evander Holyfield, and lose title
back to Holyfield in November 1993, is born.
1980 - Composer and violinist, Clarence C. White, dies.
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, the first African American to hold the post.
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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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