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Today in “Hidden” History is a daily listing of important but little-known events illustrating the range of innovators, contributors, or incidents excluded from formal history lessons or common knowledge. Hidden history is intended not as an exhaustive review, but merely as an illustration of how popular narratives "hide" many matters of fundamental importance. Bookmark this page and check daily to quickly expand your knowledge. Suggest entries for Today in “Hidden” History by clicking the Contact Us link. Entries for August 15:

Date	Type	Event
1829		A two-week reign of white terror against African Americans begins in Cincinnati, Ohio. Previously, the Cincinnati Daily Gazette printed a notice warning that the city would rigidly enforce the Black Act of 1807, requiring all Black residents to enter into bond or face expulsion. The Black population understood that warning as a threat of mob violence. White mobs estimated at times at 200 to 300 led by Irish immigrants invaded the riverfront area where African Americans lived with the avowed intent to drive them all out of the city. The mob burned shelters and homes and assaulted a number of individuals. African Americans fought back but the attacks persuaded many in the Black population to evacuate Cincinnati. A number of them emigrated to Canada to a community they named Wilberforce. Those who stayed behind attempted to rebuild their lives but experienced further white assaults in 1836 and beyond. Learn more.
1907		Robert Josias "Raphael" Morgan is ordained as the first Black Eastern Orthodox priest in the United States. After being active in other denominations, including the AME Church, Church of England, and the Episcopal Church, Morgan converted to Orthodoxy. He was ordained as an Orthodox priest of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Constantinople (Istanbul). He was designated as "Missionary (Greek: Ιεραποστολος) to America and the West Indies." Learn more.
1962		Shady Grove Baptist Church in Leesburg, Georgia, a base for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and site of voter registration mobilization efforts visited by the civil rights movement’s top leaders, is burned to the ground in suspicious circumstances. It would become the first of four Black churches similarly destroyed that year. Local officials originally attributed the cause to faulty wiring or lightening strike, but that flimsy explanation was disproved two months later when the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), under the direction of J. Edgar Hoover, arrested and charged two White men, Jack Smith and Douglas Parker, with the arson. Learn more.
1995		Shannon Faulkner matriculates into The Citadel with an otherwise all-male corps of cadets under the escort of United States Marshals, the first female cadet in the institution’s history. She was one of five cadets to suffer heat-stress after the first four hours of training. She spent the remainder of the first week in the infirmary before voluntarily resigning, citing emotional and psychological abuse and physical exhaustion; Faulkner was one of thirty cadets to drop out at that time. After her departure, the male cadets openly celebrated on the campus. In 1999, Faulkner told the Associated Press, "I went into it knowing I may not get anything out of it. I was doing it for the next woman." In a 2012 interview with the Post and Courier newspaper, Faulkner said that what precipitated her leaving so abruptly was a threat to kill her parents by a person present when she entered. Her parents' home was vandalized. After leaving The Citadel, Faulkner attended Anderson College. Upon graduating in 1999, she became a middle school teacher in South Carolina. Learn more.