August 27
1963- W.E.B. Du Bois, scholar and founder of NAACP, died in Accra, Ghana.
August 28
1955- 14 year-old Emmett Till was kidnapped and lynched in Money, Mississippi, for allegedly whistling at a white female at a local grocery shop.
August 29
1962- Malvin R. Goode becomes the first African American television news commentator when he began working at ABC.
August 30
1983- Lieutenant Colonel Guion S. Bluford Jr. became the first African American US astronaut enters.
August 31
1935- In Beaumont, Texas, American professional baseball player and manager Frank Robinson was born. He was the first Black manager in major league baseball.
September 1
1975- Gen. Daniel “Chappie” James Jr. promoted to rank of four-star general and named commander-in-chief of the North American Air Defense Command.
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