TODAY IN BLACK HISTORY—August 31

August 31, 1935—Professional baseball player Frank Robinson is born in Beaumont, TX. He goes on to become the first black manager in major league baseball.

TODAY IN BLACK HISTORY—August 30

August 30, 1901—Roy Wilkins, 2nd Executive Director of NAACP, is born. 

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August 30, 1800—Gabriel Prosser's slave revolt in Virginia is discovered.

August 30, 1838—The first African American magazine, Mirror of Freedom, begins publication in New York City.

August 30, 1843—African Americans participate in a national political convention for the first time at the Liberty Party Convention held in Buffalo, NY. Samuel R. Ward leads the convention in prayer; Henry Highland Garnet is chosen as a member of the nominating committee; and Charles R. Ray is selected as  one of the convention's secretaries.

 

TODAY IN BLACK HISTORY—August 29th

August 29, 1979—Sheridan Broadcasting Corp purchases Mutual Black Network, making it the first completely Black owned radio network in the world.

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August 28, 1963—Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers his "I Have A Dream" speech at Lincoln Memorial during the March On Washington, 1963.

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August 27, 1963—W. E. B. DuBois, editor, author and civil rights leader, dies in Ghana, Africa.

His book, The Souls of Black Folk, published in 1903, is a classic in Black History and literature.

Today in Black History—Hale Woodruff

August 26, 1900—The celebrated painter Hale Woodruff is born in Cairo, IL  

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