*		Today in Black History - August 27            *

1879 - African American publisher Robert Lee Vann is born in 
	Ahoskie, North Carolina. He will become an African
	American publisher, lawyer and the nurturing editor of 
	the Black newspaper, the Pittsburgh Courier. He will
	attend Western University of Pennsylvania. He will 
	graduate from Law School in June, 1909. In 1910, he will
	become the Pittsburgh Courier's editor and publisher. 
	Under his leadership, The Courier will develop into one 
	of the leading Black newspapers of the era. By the 1930s,
	it will be one of the highest circulated Black newspapers
	in the United States. As many as 14 different editions 
	will be circulated throughout the country. He will become
	involved in politics throughout his association with The
	Courier. In 1918, he will be appointed the fourth 
	assistant city solicitor in Pittsburgh, the highest 
	position held by an African American in the city 
	government. Initially a Republican, he will grow 
	disillusioned with the party and convert to the 
	Democratic Party. On September 11, 1932, he will deliver
	a famous speech at the St. James Literary Forum in 
	Cleveland, Ohio entitled "The Patriot and the Partisan" 
	and will urge African Americans throughout the nation to 
	turn away from the Republican party which had failed them, 
	and support the Democratic party of Franklin D. Roosevelt 
	in the 1932 election. He will support Franklin D. 
	Roosevelt in the 1932 election, and will subsequently be
	named special assistant to the U.S. attorney general. In 
	1935, he will help campaign for the enactment of an equal
	rights law in the State of Pennsylvania. He will serve as
	editor and publisher of The Pittsburgh Courier until he
	joins the ancestors on October 24, 1940. 

1909 - Lester Young is born into a musical family in Woodville,
	Mississippi.  Young was taught several instruments by 
	his father. As a child he played drums in the family's 
	band, but around 1928 he quit the group and switched to 
	tenor saxophone. His first engagements on this 
	instrument were with Art Bronson, in Phoenix, Arizona. 
	He stayed with Bronson until 1930, with a brief side 
	trip to play again with the family, then worked in and
	around Minneapolis, Minnesota, with various bands. In 
	the spring of 1932 he joined the Original Blue Devils, 
	under the leadership of Walter Page, and was one of 
	several members of the band who joined Bennie Moten in 
	Kansas City towards the end of 1933. During the next 
	few years Young played in the bands of Moten, George E.
	Lee, King Oliver, Count Basie, Fletcher Henderson, Andy
	Kirk and others. He will join the ancestors on March 15,
	1959.

1918 - Dr. Joseph L. Johnson is named minister to Liberia. 

1963 - W.E.B. DuBois joins the ancestors at age 95 in Accra, 
	Ghana. He was one of America's foremost scholars, a 
	militant civil rights activist, founding father of the 
	NAACP, and leading proponent of Pan-Africanism. 

1963 - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I Have A Dream" 
	speech in Washington, DC during the 1963 March on 
	Washington.

1966 - A racially motivated civil disobedience riot occurs in 
	Waukegan, Illinois.

1975 - Haile Selassie, "Lion of Judah" and deposed Ethiopian 
	emperor, joins the ancestors at age 83 in Addis Ababa.

1982 - Rickey Henderson steals 119th base of season breaking Lou
	Brock's mark.

1983 - The second "March on Washington for Jobs, Peace, and 
	Freedom" is held. 

1989 - 'Johnny B Goode' is performed by Chuck Berry for NASA 
	engineers and scientists in celebration of Voyager II's 
	encounter with the planet Neptune.

1991 - Central Life Insurance Company, the last surviving 
	African American owned insurance company in the state of 
	Florida, is ordered liquidated by a Florida circuit 
	court judge.

2000 - Tiger Woods becomes the first male golfer since Johnny 
	Miller in 1975 to successfully defend three titles in 
	one year when he wins the NEC World Invitational.

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