*                Today in Black History - June 30               *

1881 - Henry Highland Garnet, former abolitionist leader and
        Presbyterian minister, is named Minister to Liberia.  He will
        die in Monrovia shortly after his arrival.

1906 - John Hope becomes the first African American president of
        Morehouse College.

1917 - Lena Horne is born in Brooklyn, New York.  She will begin her
        career at 16 as a chorus girl at the Cotton Club in Harlem,
        appear in the movies "Cabin in the Sky" and "Stormy Weather"
        and have a successful Broadway career culminating in her one-
        woman show.  Horne will also be a strong civil rights advocate,
        refusing to perform in clubs where African Americans are not
        admitted and marching during the civil rights movement in the
        1960s.

1921 - Charles S. Gilpin becomes the first actor to receive the NAACP's
        Spingarn Medal for his portrayal of Emperor Jones in the Eugene
        O'Neill play of the same name.

1940 - John T. Scott is born in New Orleans, Louisiana.  He will become
        a professor of art and a sculptor whose works will be exhibited
        widely in the U.S. and at the exhibit of "Art of Black America
        in Japan, Afro-American Modernism: 1937-1987."

1958 - Alabama courts fined the NAACP $ 100,000 for contempt, for
        refusing to divulge membership.  The U.S. Supreme Court will
        reverse the decision.

1960 - Zaire proclaims its independence from Belgium.

1966 - Mike Tyson, former heavyweight champion of the world and
        youngest (at age 19) to win that title (WBC in 1986), is born.

1967 - Maj. Robert H. Lawrence Jr. becomes the first African American
        astronaut.  He will be killed during a training flight accident
        on December 8, 1967.

1969 - Jacob Lawrence receives the NAACP's Spingarn Medal " in
        testimony to his eminence among American painters."

1974 - Alberta King, mother of the late Martin Luther King Jr., is
        assassinated during a church service in Atlanta, Georgia.
        The assailant, Marcus Chennault of Dayton, Ohio, is later
        convicted and sentenced to death.

1978 - Larry Doby becomes the manager of the Chicago White Sox baseball
        team.  He will have a win-loss record of 37-50 and will be
        be fired at the end of the season (October 19).

1980 - Coleman A. Young is awarded the Spingarn Medal for his "singular
        accomplishments as Mayor of the City of Detroit," a position he
        had held since 1973.

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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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