*                   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.

1967 - Riddick Bowe is born.  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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