=*		    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 Haywood Cooper is born in Raleigh, North Carolina.  
	She will become an author, educator, speaker and one of 
	the most prominent African American scholars in United 
	States history. Upon receiving her Ph.D in history from 
	the University of Paris-Sorbonne in 1924, Cooper became 
	the fourth African American woman to earn a doctoral 
	degree (age 65). She will be a prominent member of 
	Washington, D.C.'s African American community until she
	joins the ancestors on February 27, 1964.
 
1867 - Famed Shakespearean actor, Ira Aldridge, joins the 
	ancestors.

1944 - A race riot occurs in Athens, Alabama.

1950 - Patti Austin is born in the village of Harlem in New York 
	City. She will become a sophisticated vocalist whose style 
	will be steeped in jazz. She will make her performing debut
	at the age of four, singing a song called "Teach Me Tonight" 
	on the stage of Harlem's famed Apollo Theater during an 
	appearance by vocalist Dinah Washington, who was also 
	Austin's godmother. Something of a child star, she will
	appear on Sammy Davis, Jr.'s television variety show, work 
	on stage with such stars as Ray Bolger of The Wizard of Oz, 
	and when she is nine, goes to Europe with a group led by 
	bandleader Quincy Jones, who will become an immensely 
	influential figure both on her own career and on the world 
	of Black popular music generally.

1967 - Riddick Lamont Bowe is born in the borough of Brooklyn in New
	York City. He will become a professional boxer who will win 
	the World Heavyweight Title with an unanimous decision over 
	Evander Holyfield in November 1992, 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 when he competes 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. Upon confirmation, he will become the 
	first African American to hold the post.

______________________________________________________________
           Munirah Chronicle is edited by Mr. Rene' A. Perry
              "The TRUTH shall make you free"

   E-mail:   <[log in to unmask]>
   Archives: http://listserv.icors.org/archives/Munirah.html
             http://blackagenda.com/cybercolonies/index.htm
   _____________________________________________________________
   To SUBSCRIBE send E-mail to: <[log in to unmask]>
   In the E-mail body place:  Subscribe Munirah Your FULL Name
   ______________________________________________________________
   Munirah(TM) is a trademark of Information Man. Copyright 1997 - 2015,
   All Rights Reserved by the Information Man in association with
   The Black Agenda.