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******* Today in Black History – August 14, 2018 *******
1862 - President Lincoln receives the first group of African
Americans to confer
with a U.S. president on a matter of
public policy. He
urges African Americans to emigrate to
Africa or Central
America and is bitterly criticized by
northern African
Americans.
1876 - Prairie View State University is founded.
1883 - Ernest Everett Just is born in Charleston, South
Carolina.
After graduating
magna cum laude from Dartmouth College
in 1907, he will
become a teacher at Howard University.
He will spend
summers working as a research assistant at
the Marine Biological
Laboratory at Woods Hole,
Massachusetts. He
will receive his Ph.D. from the
University of
Chicago in 1916. He will become a noted
marine biologist
and the head of the physiology
department at
Howard. He will be awarded the NAACP's
first Spingarn
Medal (1915) for his research in biology.
In his early days
at Howard University, he will be one
of the founders of
Omega Psi Phi Fraternity and faculty
advisor. He will
join the ancestors on October 27, 1941.
1908 - A race riot occurs in Springfield Illinois and will last
for five days. Army
troops are called out. This riot
will stir the
conscience of American civil rights leaders
and will lead to
the founding of the NAACP.
1929 - Richard "Dick Tiger" Ihetu
is born in Nkwerre Orlu, Imo
State, Nigeria. He
will become a professional boxer and a
world champion
middleweight from 1962-63 and 1964. He
will be the world
lightweight champion from 1965 to 1968.
He will join the
ancestors on December 14, 1971 after
succumbing to liver
cancer. He will be inducted into the
International
Boxing Hall of Fame in 1991.
1938 - Niara Sudarkasa
is born in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. She
will be an
anthropologist and groundbreaking educator,
becoming the first
African American professor to receive
tenure at the
University of Michigan, and the first woman
president of
Lincoln University, a traditionally male
African American
college. She will be the Distinguished
Scholar-in-Residence
at the African American Research
Library and
Cultural Center in Fort Lauderdale, Florida,
and will sit on the
board of directors for several
organizations
including the Academy for Educational
Development.
1946 - Larry Graham is born in Beaumont. Texas. He will become a
musician (bassist)
and singer. He will perform with Sly
and the Family
Stone and Graham Central Station. He
will
leave Graham
Central Station, start a solo career, and
will be known for
his songs, "One in a Million" and "I
Never Forgot Your
Eyes."
1946 - Antonio Juan Fargas is born in
the Bronx in New York City.
He will become an
actor and will be best known for his role
as "Huggy Bear" in the TV series, "Starsky & Hutch."
1956 - Jackee Harry is born in
Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
She will become an
actress and will star as "Sandra" in
the television
series "227" and the adoptive mother of
one of a pair of
twins in the television series "Sister,
Sister."
1959 - Earvin Johnson is born in Lansing, Michigan. Better known
as "Magic,"
he will lead Michigan State University to the
NCAA championship
in 1979. After two years of college, he
will enter the NBA
and be picked first in the draft by the
Los Angeles Lakers.
He will become one of the best point
guards in NBA
history. After retiring from basketball, he
will concentrate on
his business ventures and will have
success developing stadium-style movie theaters in
inner
city underserved
areas.
1968 - Halle Maria Berry is born in Cleveland, Ohio. She will
become Miss World
USA in 1986 and will have a successful
acting career,
starring in the mini-series "Queen" and the
movie
"Boomerang." In 2002, she will win the Best Actress
Oscar for her role
in "Monster's Ball."
1970 - City University of New York (CUNY) inaugurates its open
admissions policy
designed to increase the number of poor
and minority
students.
1971 - Bob Gibson, of the St. Louis Cardinals, pitches a
no-hitter
against the
Pittsburgh Pirates. It is the first no-hitter
against the Pirates
since 1955.
1992 - The White House announces that the Pentagon will begin
emergency airlifts
of food to Somalia to alleviate mass
deaths by
starvation.
2010 - Abbey Lincoln (born Anna Marie Wooldridge), renown jazz
vocalist,
songwriter and actress, joins the ancestors in
Manhattan, New
York. She had been suffering deteriorating
health for years
following open heart surgery in 2007.
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The source for these facts are "Encyclopedia Britannica,
"Before the
Mayflower", "Black Firsts" and independent
research by Mr. Rene’ A. Perry, Sr.
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