* Today in Black History - June 23 *
1888 - Abolitionist Frederick Douglass receives one vote from the Kentucky
delegation at the Republican convention in Chicago, effectively
making him the first African American candidate nominated for U.S.
president.
1893 - Willie Sims, the wealthiest jockey of his time, rides winning horses
in five of six races at Sheepshead Bay in Brooklyn, New York. Sims
will repeat the feat two years later in addition to winning two
Kentucky Derbys and two Belmont Stakes.
1904 - Willie Mae Ford (later Smith) is born in Rolling Fork,
Mississippi. She will become a leading gospel singer and will be
known as "the mother of gospel music." She will join the ancestors
in 1994.
1919 - The Black Star Line of Marcus Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement
Association (UNIA) is incorporated.
1926 - Langston Hughes' articles "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain"
appears in "Nation "magazine. In it, Hughes expresses African
Americans' bold new confidence to create a new art during the
Harlem Renaissance. "We younger Negro artists who create now
intend to express our individual dark skinned selves without fear
or shame."
1940 - Wilma Rudolph is born in Clarksville, Tennessee. A polio victim as
a child, she will overcome her illness and win three gold medals at
the Summer Games in Rome (1960), the first American woman to
achieve this feat in a single Olympiad. She will be inducted into
the Olympic Hall of Fame. She will join the ancestors in November,
1994.
1944 - Rosetta Hightower is born. She will become a singer with the group,
The Orlons. Some of their hits will be "The Wah Watusi," "Don't
Hang Up," and "South Street."
1948 - Clarence Thomas is born in the Pinpoint community, near Savannah,
Georgia. He will become a U.S. Supreme Court Justice in 1991,
replacing Thurgood Marshall as the only African American among the
nine jurists. He is appointed by the conservative republican
administration to satisfy the need to have an African American on
the court, while at the same time have a justice that is very
conservative. This will serve to increase the court's decisions
that negatively affect African Americans and other minorities and
weaken affirmative action.
1958 - A federal judge ruled racial segregation in Little Rock, Arkansas,
must end in 30 months.
1969 - Joe Frazier defeats Jerry Quarry for the heavyweight boxing title.
1970 - Charles Rangel defeats Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. in the New York
Democratic primary in Harlem. This will end the political career
of one of the major political symbols of the post-World War II
period.
1982 - The House of Representatives approves the extension of the Voting
Rights Act of 1965, despite North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms'
attempt to block the House vote. The Senate had approved the
extension of the bill five days before the historic House vote.
1990 - TV Guide selects Arsenio Hall as Television Personality of the Year.
1994 - After decades as an international outcast, South Africa reclaims its
seat in the United Nations.
1994 - French marines and Foreign Legionnaires head into Rwanda to try to
stem the country's ethnic slaughter.
1997 - Dr. Betty Shabazz, widow of Malcolm X, joins the ancestors in New
York City at the age of 61, 3 weeks after receiving burns over 80%
of her body. Her burns were the result of a fire set by her
grandson, Malcolm.
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