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August 30, 1948

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DURHAM HAS MELEE AS WALLACE SPEAKS; Eggs Thrown, Hecklers March as He Opens Southern Tour, Asks Billions for Region

By John N. Popham

Wallace opens Southern tour; s before mixed audiences at Norfolk, Suffolk and Richmond without incident; armed Natl Guardsman precedes him to platform at Durham, NC, after armory floor fight caused by white youths group denouncing him and meeting; most of group ejected by Natl Guard and city police; firecrackers go off as he s; he is heckled; s on Fed aid for South; eggs thrown at party as they leave; Wallace stays with Negro family

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Notable Births

Lewis Black

1948Lewis Black, American comedian, actor, and author[†]

Lewis Niles Black is an American stand-up comedian and actor. His comedy routines often escalate into angry rants about history, politics, religion and cultural trends.

Fred Hampton

1948Fred Hampton, American activist and revolutionary, chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party (died 1969)[†]

Fredrick Allen Hampton Sr. was an American activist and revolutionary socialist. He came to prominence in his late teens and early 20s in Chicago as deputy chairman of the national Black Panther Party and chair of the Illinois chapter. He founded the anti-racist, anti-classist Rainbow Coalition, a prominent multicultural political organization that initially included the Black Panthers, Young Patriots, and the Young Lords, and an alliance among major Chicago street gangs to help them end infighting and work for social change. He professed to be a Marxist-Leninist. Hampton considered fascism the greatest threat, saying "nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism will stop us all."

Victor Skumin

1948Victor Skumin, Russian psychiatrist, psychologist, and academic[†]

Victor Andreevich Skumin is a Russian and Soviet scientist, psychiatrist, philosopher and writer.

Notable Deaths

Alice Salomon

1948Alice Salomon, German-American social reformer (born 1872)[†]

Alice Salomon was a German social reformer and pioneer of social work as an academic discipline. Her role was so important to German social work that the Deutsche Bundespost issued a commemorative postage stamp about her in 1989. A university, a park and a square in Berlin are all named after her.