*               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 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 on this day.  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 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, is the first African-American
        mayor of the city and 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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        The source for these facts are "Encyclopedia Britannica,
        "InfoBeat," "I, Too, Sing America - The African American
        Book of Days," "Before the Mayflower", "Black Firsts" and
        independent research by the Information Man.
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