"the first time since Reconstruction that the federal government had evinced any real concern over the discriminatiory treatment of black people". Born: Jim Kiick, American NFL running back, in Lincoln Park, New Jersey August 10, 1946 (Saturday) In Athens, Alabama, a mob of white men and teenagers, estimated at 2,000 people, rioted after two white men had been jailed for an unprovoked attack on a black man the day before. Breaking into smaller groups, the mob went into town and began beating any African-American seen in the street. State troops, sent by the Governor, arrived at 4:00 pm and restored order by midnight. Nobody was killed, but more than 50 black persons were injured. Sixteen white suspects were later indicted by a county grand jury for the violence. August 11, 1946 (Sunday) Schoolteacher Dumarsais Estimé was elected President of Haiti August 12, 1946 (Monday) In the largest labor strike in South Africa since 1922, more than 60,000 black members of the African Mineworkers Union walked away from their jobs in the nation's gold mines, including 13,000 at Witwatersrand. A group of 4,000 striking miners marched at Johannesburg to protest working conditions. August 13, 1946 (Tuesday) Tenth Circuit Judge Joseph McCarthy defeated longtime U.S. Senator Robert M. La Follette Jr. in the Wisconsin Republican primary. In the United States, the Indian Claims Commission was established to fix a fair market value for land taken from the American Indians "at the time the land was taken". An example of the low awards of compensation was $29.1 million for the entire state of California, at 47 cents an acre. Between 1946 and the 1951 deadline, 370 petitions were filed. Died: H.G. Wells, 79, British science fiction author who wrote The Time Machine in 1895 William J. Gallagher, 71, retired Minneapolis street sweeper who was elected to Congress in 1944. August 14, 1946 (Wednesday) Soviet politician Andrei Zhdanov began a campaign against writers and artists whose work showed "anti-Soviet sentiment" or complacency toward Communist party goals. At Zhdanov's direction, the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party passed the resolution "About the journals Zvezda and Leningrad" on proper Soviet literature, condemning the two literary magazines for publishing the works of author Mikhail Zoshchenko and poet Anna Akhmatova. The editors of the magazines were replaced, and the two writers were barred from publishing further works. Similar condemnations followed against bourgeois influence in theater (August 26)