*                   Today in Black History - May 29                   *

1910 - Ralph Metcalfe is born in Atlanta, Georgia.  He will become a world
        record holder in the 100- and 200-yard dashes and win a bronze medal
        in the 1932 Olympic Games and gold and silver medals in the 1936
        Games. He will also become a four-term congressman representing
        Illinois's 1st District.

1950 - Maureen "Rebbie" Jackson is born in Gary, Indiana.  Rebbie will make
        her professional debut at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas with her siblings,
        the Jackson's.  In the late 70s, she will begin to consider a solo
        career.  Artists such as Betty Wright and Wanda Hutchinson of the
        Emotions will mentor her, but it will be her brother Michael who pens
        and produces her very first hit, "Centipede."  As the title track of
        Rebbie's 1984 debut, "Centipede," introduces the pop world to a Jackson
        most never knew existed.

1956 - La Toya Jackson is born in Gary, Indiana.  She will become a singer and
        one of the most controversial members of the Jackson family.  She will
        be referred to as "The Rebel With A Cause." She will cause a big stir,
        when she poses for Playboy Magazine. Her book, "La Toya: Growing Up in
        the Jackson Family," will be on the New York Times Best Seller List for
        nine weeks.  She will attract full capacity audiences in her performances
        all over the world.

1962 - Buck (John) O'Neil becomes the first African American coach in major-
        league baseball.  He accepts the job with the Chicago Cubs.  O'Neil had
        previously been a scout with the Cubs organization.  He had been a
        notable first baseman in Black baseball.

1965 - Ralph Boston sets a world record in the broad jump at 27 feet, 4-3/4 inches,
        at a meet held in Modesto, California.

1969 - Artist and art educator James v. Herring dies in Washington, DC.  Herring
        organized the first American art gallery to be directed and controlled by
        African-Americans on the Howard University campus in 1930, founded and
        directed the university's art department and, with Alonzo Aden, opened
        the famed Barnett-Aden Gallery in Washington, D.C., in 1943.

1973 - Tom Bradley is elected the first African American mayor of Los Angeles,
        California.  Winning after a bitter defeat four years earlier by incumbent
        mayor Sam Yorty, Bradley, a Texas native and former Los Angeles Police
        Department veteran, will serve an unprecedented five terms.

1980 - Vernon E. Jordan Jr., President of the National Urban League, is critically
        injured in an attempted assassination in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

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