*		Today in Black History - June 12                 *

1826 - Sarah Parker Remond is born in Salem, Massachusetts.
	She will become a major abolitionist.

1840 - The World's Anti-Slavery Convention convenes in 
	London, England.  Among those in attendance will be 
	African American Charles Remond, who will refuse to be
	seated at the meeting when he and the other delegates
	learn that women are being segregated in the gallery.

1876 - A monument is dedicated to Richard Allen in 
	Philadelphia's Fairmount Park.  It is the first known 
	monument erected by African Americans to honor one of 
	their heroes.

1935 - Ella Fitzgerald records her first record for Brunswick
	Records. The songs on the record were "Love and Kisses" 
	and "I'll Chase the Blues Away".  She is featured with 
	Chick Webb and his band. Ella is 17 years old at the 
	time and will conduct the Webb band for three years 
	following his death in 1939.

1961 - The Hinds County Mississippi Board of Supervisors 
	announces that more than one hundred "Freedom Riders" 
	had been arrested.

1963 - Medgar Evers, field secretary for the Mississippi 
	NAACP, joins the ancestors after being killed in the 
	driveway outside his home in Jackson, Mississippi.   
	The African American civil rights leader is shot to 
	death by white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith. During
	World War II, Evers volunteered for the U.S. Army and 
	participated in the Normandy invasion. In 1952, he 
	joined the National Association for the Advancement of 
	Colored People (NAACP). As a field worker for the NAACP,
	Evers traveled through his home state encouraging poor 
	African Americans to register to vote and recruiting 
	them into the civil rights movement. He was instrumental
	in getting witnesses and evidence for the Emmitt Till 
	murder case, which brought national attention to the 
	plight of African Americans in the South. He will be 
	widely mourned throughout the civil rights movement and
	posthumously receives the NAACP's Spingarn Medal.

1963 - Civil rights group demonstrates at Harlem construction 
	sites to protest discrimination in the building trade 
	unions.

1967 - The U.S. Supreme Court strikes down a Virginia 
	miscegenation law (marriage or cohabitation between 
	whites and non-whites).	This decision establishes that 
	no state law can prohibit interracial marriages. 

1967 - A racially motivated civil disturbance occurs in 
	Cincinnati, Ohio.  Three hundred persons are arrested, 
	and the National Guard is mobilized.

1972 - The National Black MBA Association is incorporated.  
	An organization of over 2,000 minority holders of 
	advanced business degrees, the organization's mission 
	is to assist the entry of interested minorities into 
	the business community.

1981 - Larry Holmes defends his heavyweight boxing title by
	earning a third-round TKO (technical knockout) over 
	Leon Spinks in Detroit, Michigan.

1989 - The U.S. Supreme Court expands the abilities of white
	males to challenge court-approved affirmative action 
	plans, even years after they take effect. 

1995 - The Supreme Court deals a potentially crippling blow 
	to federal affirmative action programs, ruling Congress
	was limited by the same strict standards as states in 
	offering special help to minorities.

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