*		Today in Black History - August 23             *

1826 - Edward A. Jones receives his B.A. degree from Amherst 
	College. John Brown Russwurm is considered to be the 
	first African American in America to graduate from 
	college.  Two years after entering Bowdoin College, he 
	receives his baccalaureate degree on September 6, 1826. 
	Edward A. Jones, the lesser known of the two, graduates 
	just two weeks prior on this date in 1826 from Amherst 
	College. Both men will receive their Masters Degrees, 
	John in 1829 and Edward in 1830. 

1833 - Great Britain frees 700,000 slaves in its colonies. 

1892 - O.E. Brown, inventor, receives a patent for a horseshoe. 

1900 - The National Negro Business League is formed in Boston, 
	Massachusetts.  Sponsored by Booker T. Washington, the 
	organization is established to stimulate the development 
	of African American businesses.

1908 - Fifty-two nurses, led by Martha M. Franklin, form the 
	National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses. 

1917 - A riot occurs in Houston, Texas, when the 24th Infantry 
	seeks revenge on the city's white police after the brutal
	beating of two of the regiment's soldiers.  After two 
	hours of violence, 15 whites, including four policemen, 
	will be killed and 12 more are injured.  Four soldiers 
	will die as a result of the violence.  One hundred and 
	eighteen soldiers will be charged in connection with the 
	riots and 19 executed, most in almost total secrecy, in 
	one of the most infamous court-martials ever involving 
	African Americans. 

1989 - An African American teenager named Yusef Hawkins is chased 
	and beaten to death by a mob of 30 white youths from the 
	neighborhood of Bensonhurst in Brooklyn, New York.  The 
	only provocation is that he is African American in an 
	all-white neighborhood.

2003 - Bobby Bonds joins the ancestors at the age of 57 after 
	succumbing to lung cancer. He was a former San Francisco
	Giant player.

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