*                  Today in Black History - July 3               *

1848 - Slaves are freed in the Danish West Indies (now the U.S. Virgin
        Islands).

1871 - Joseph H. Douglass, grandson of Frederick Douglass, is born in
        Washington, DC.  A student of the New England Conservatory of
        Music in Boston, Douglass will become a noted violinist.

1915 - U.S. military forces occupy Haiti, and remain until 1934.

1917 - Three days of racial riots end in East St. Louis, Illinois. At
        least 40 and as many as 200 African Americans are killed and
        hundreds more are wounded.

1928 - Charles Waddell Chestnutt, author of "The Conjure Woman" and
        other works, is awarded the NAACP's Spingarn Medal for his "work
        as a literary artist depicting the life and struggle of Americans
        of Negro descent."

1940 - Fontella Bass, vocalist ("Rescue Me"), is born in St. Louis,
        Missouri.

1947 - The Cleveland Indians purchase the contract of Larry Doby, the
        first African American in the American League.

1962 - Jackie Robinson, who broke the color line in professional baseball,
        is the first African American inducted into the National Baseball
        Hall of Fame and Museum, in Cooperstown, New York.

1966 - NAACP officially disassociated itself from the "Black Power"
        doctrine.

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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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