* Today in Black History - June 28 *
1770 - Anthony Benezet and other Quakers open a non-segregated school for
African American and white children in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1839 - Cinque, originally Sengbe, the son of a Mende king, along with several
other Africans, is kidnapped and sold into slavery in Cuba. Cinque
and his companions will later carry out the famous successful revolt
upon the slave ship Amistad. The rebels were captured off Long Island
on August 26.
1874 - The Freedmen's Savings & Trust Company, because of mismanagement,
closed its doors causing over 60,000 African American depositors to
lose their $ 3 million in deposits.
1927 - Anthony Overton, president of Victory Life Insurance Company, receives
the NAACP's Spingarn Medal for "his successful business career
climaxed by admission of his company as the first Negro organization
permitted to do business under the rigid requirements of the State of
New York."
1935 - Mary McLeod Bethune, founder and president of Bethune-Cookman College,
receives the Spingarn Medal from the NAACP. Bethune is honored for
speaking out against racism and injustice "in the South as well as in
the North, without compromise or fear."
1936 - Major Owens, who will succeed Shirley Chisholm as Congressional
representative from New York, is born in Memphis, Tennessee.
1946 - Thurgood Marshall receives the Spingarn Medal for his "distinguished
service as a lawyer before the Supreme Court of the United States and
inferior courts."
1951 - The Amos 'n' Andy Show premieres on television. While criticized for
racial stereotyping, it is the first show with an all African American
cast to be successful on the small screen.
1964 - Malcolm X founds the Organization for Afro-American Unity in New York.
1978 - The Supreme Court hands down its "Bakke" decision, ruling that the
University of California at Davis Medical College's special admissions
program for minority students is illegal. As a result, Allan P. Bakke,
a white student, is ordered admitted to the college to prevent what the
Court considers reverse discrimination.
1990 - Jurors in the drug and perjury trial of Washington, DC, Mayor Marion S.
Barry Jr. view a videotape showing Barry smoking crack cocaine during
an FBI hotel-room sting operation. Barry will be later convicted of a
single count of misdemeanor drug possession.
1997 - Mike Tyson "sets a new standard for bizarre behavior" in the heavyweight
boxing championship bout with Evander Holyfield at the MGM Grand Hotel
in Las Vegas, Nevada, when he bites off a one-inch chunk of Holyfield's
ear in the third round. Tyson is disqualified, and Holyfield is
spirited away to a local hospital, where the piece of his ear is re-
attached after being located on the canvas of the ring.
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