*                   Today in Black History - June 29                   *

1868 - The Louisiana legislature meets in New Orleans. The temporary
        chairman of the house is an African American representative,
        R.H. Isabelle.  Oscar J. Dunn presides over the senate. Seven
        of the thirty-six senators are African American. Thirty-five
        of the 101 representatives are African American.

1886 - James Van DerZee is born in Lenox, Massachusetts.  He will
        become one of America's foremost photographers and a major
        chronicler of the visual history of the Harlem Renaissance.
        His photographic subjects include Marcus Garvey, Madame C.J.
        Walker, Daddy Grace and many others.

1922 - Lloyd Richards is born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.  He will be
        the first person of African descent to direct a Broadway play
        in modern times ("A Raisin in the Sun", 1959) and he will
        become the dean of the Yale School of Drama and artistic
        director of the Yale Repertory Theatre.

1945 - Little Eva, rhythm and blues singer, ("Locomotion") is born.

1949 - South Africa begins its apartheid policy of racial segregation.
        This includes a ban against racially-mixed marriages.

1950 - Mabel Keaton Staupers of the National Association of Colored
        Graduate Nurses receives the Spingarn Medal in honor of her
        advocacy of integration of African American graduate nurses
        into the American workplace.

1964 - The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is passed.

1968 - Marlin Briscoe becomes the first African American quarterback
        to play professional football in the modern NFL.

1970 - NAACP chairman Stephen Gill Spottswood tells the NAACP annual
        convention that the Nixon administration is "anti-Negro" and
        is pressing "a calculated Policy" inimical to "the needs and
        aspirations of the large majority" of citizens.

1972 - U.S. Supreme Court rules, in a five to four decision, that the
        death penalty is cruel and unusual punishment which violates
        the Eighth Amendment.  African Americans and members of other
        minority groups constitute 483 of the 600 persons awaiting
        execution.

1972 - The NAACP Annual Report states the unemployment of "urban Blacks
        in 1971 was worse than at anytime since the great depression
        of the thirties." The report also says that more school
        desegregation occurred in 1971 than in any other year since
        the 1954 school decision.

1983 - The Apollo Theatre, in Harlem, New York, is declared a cultural
        landmark.

1988 - Motown Records is sold for $ 61 million to an investment group
        that includes a venture-capital firm, record executive Jheryl
        Busby, and others.  The company, which was founded by Berry
        Gordy in 1959, produced some of the biggest rhythm and blues
        performers of all time including the Supremes, the Temptations,
        the Four Tops and Marvin Gaye.

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