* Today in Black History - June 22 *
1772 - Slavery is outlawed in England.
1868 - Congress readmits the state of Arkansas on the condition that it
would never change its constitution to disenfranchise African
Americans.
1909 - Katherine Dunham is born in Glen Ellyn, Illinois (Dupage County).
She will become one of the revolutionary forces in modern dance
through her introduction and use of African and Caribbean styles.
Successful on the stage and in movies, including "Stormy Weather",
in the late 1960's, she will form the Katherine Dunham Center for
the Performing Arts and in 1983 will be awarded Kennedy Center
honors. "She will spend her later years residing in East St. Louis,
Illinois.
1937 - Joe Louis knocks out James Braddock to become the heavyweight boxing
champion of the world. The fight is won in eight rounds before
45,000 fans, the largest audience, to date, to witness a fight.
1938 - Joe Louis defeats German boxer Max Schmeling in a rematch of their
1936 fight and retains his world heavyweight crown. Because of the
Nazi persecution of Jews in Europe and Hitler's disdain for people
of African descent, the fight will take on mythic proportion, with
Louis seen by many as fighting to uphold democracy and the race.
He succeeds convincingly, ending the fight in 2:04 of the first
round at Yankee Stadium.
1941 - Ed Bradley is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A CBS
correspondent covering the Vietnam conflict, Bradley will become co-
anchor of CBS' "60 Minutes" and win at least six Emmy awards.
1947 - Octavia Butler is born in Pasadena, California. She will become a
science fiction writer and winner of the Hugo Award for excellence
in science fiction writing in 1984.
1949 - Ezzard Charles defeats Jersey Joe Walcott to win the heavyweight
championship of the world.
1962 - Clyde 'The Glide' Drexler is born in Houston, Texas. He will become
a basketball star at the University of Houston and will lead
Houston's "Phi Slamma Jamma" team to the NCAA Final Four two years
in a row, 1983 and 1984. He will be drafted by the NBA Portland
Trailblazers, where he will play twelve seasons, and will lead them
to the NBA FInals twice. After being traded to the Houston
Rockets, he will join his teammate from the University of Houston,
Hakeem Olajuwon and help the Rockets win the NBA championship in
1995. After retiring from the NBA, he will become the head coach at
his alma mater, the University of Houston.
1963 - "Fingertips - Pt 2" by Little Stevie Wonder is released. It becomes
Wonder's first number one single on August 10th. Stevie Wonder will
have 46 hits on the pop and Rhythm & Blues music charts between
1963 and 1987. Eight of those hits will make it to number one.
1989 - The government of Angola and the anti-Communist rebels of the UNITA
movement agree to a formal truce in their 14-year-old civil war.
1990 - African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela, speaking before the
United Nations, states that a democratic, nonracial South Africa is
"within our grasp."
1991 - "Kaleidoscope", an exhibit of the work of over 30 African American
photographers, opens at the Anacostia Museum in Washington, DC.
Among those exhibited are masters Addison Scurlock and Robert
Scurlock as well as contemporary photographers Matthew Lewis, Sam
Yette, Sharon Farmer, and Brian Jones.
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