* Today in Black History - June 29 *
1868 - The Louisiana legislature meets in New Orleans. The temporary
chairman of the house is an African American representative,
R.H. Isabelle. Oscar J. Dunn presides over the senate. Seven
of the thirty-six senators are African American. Thirty-five
of the 101 representatives are African American.
1886 - James Van DerZee is born in Lenox, Massachusetts. He will
become one of America's foremost photographers and a major
chronicler of the visual history of the Harlem Renaissance.
His photographic subjects include Marcus Garvey, Madame C.J.
Walker, Daddy Grace and many others.
1922 - Lloyd Richards is born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He will
be the first African American to direct a Broadway play in
modern times ("A Raisin in the Sun", 1959) and he will become
the dean of the Yale School of Drama and artistic director of
the Yale Repertory Theatre.
1941 - Kwame Ture (Stokeley Carmichael), civil rights activist and
leader of the Black Power Movement, is born.
1945 - Little Eva, rhythm and blues singer, ("Locomotion") is born.
1949 - South Africa begins its apartheid policy of racial segregation.
1950 - Mabel Keaton Staupers of the National Association of Colored
Graduate Nurses receives the Spingarn Medal in honor of her
advocacy of integration of African American graduate nurses
into the American workplace.
1964 - The Civil Rights Act (of 1964) is passed.
1968 - Marlin Biscoe becomes the first African American quarterback
to play professional football in the modern NFL.
1970 - NAACP chairman Stephen Gill Spottswood tells the NAACP annual
convention that the Nixon administration is "anti-Negro" and
is pressing "a calculated Policy" inimical to "the needs and
aspirations of the large majority" of citizens.
1972 - U.S. Supreme Court rules, in a five to four decision, that the
death penalty is cruel and unusual punishment which violates
the Eighth Amendment. African Americans and members of other
minority groups constitute 483 of the 600 persons awaiting
execution.
1972 - The NAACP Annual Report states the unemployment of "urban Blacks
in 1971 was worse than at anytime since the great depression
of the thirties." The report also says that more school
desegregation occurred in 1971 than in any other year since
the 1954 school decision.
1983 - The Apollo Theatre, in Harlem, New York, is declared a cultural
landmark.
1988 - Motown Records is sold for $ 61 million to an investment group
that includes a venture-capital firm, record executive Jheryl
Busby, and others. The company, which was founded by Berry
Gordy in 1959, produced some of the biggest rhythm and blues
performers of all time including the Supremes, the Temptations,
the Four Tops and Marvin Gaye.
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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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