* Today in Black History - August 27 *
1879 - African American publisher Robert Lee Vann is born in
Ahoskie, North Carolina. He will become a 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 disorder 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.
2015 - Longtime NBA center Darryl Dawkins, perhaps best known
for his emphatic slam dunks, joins the ancestors at the
age of 58, after succumbing to a heart attack.
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