TODAY IN BLACK HISTORY

August 4, 1810   Robert Purvis, prominent abolitionist and Black leader is born in Charleston, SC.
Read more about Purvis at http://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/6442 

August 4, 1961   Barack Obama, the first African American to be elected President of the United States, is born in Honolulu, HA.
Read more about President Obama at http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/president-obama