* Today in Black History - August 6 *
1795 - Absalom Jones is ordained a deacon in the Protestant Episcopal
Church.
1816 - Peter Salem, Battle of Bunker Hill hero, joins the ancestors in
Framingham, Massachusetts.
1861 - Congress passes The First Confiscation Act, authorizing the
appropriation of the property, including slaves, of rebel
slaveholders.
1925 - African American lawyers organize the National Bar Association
and name George H. Woodson of Des Moines, Iowa, as President,
and Wendell Gree of Chicago, Illinois, as Secretary.
1930 - Abbey Lincoln, actress/singer ("Nothing But a Man", "Mo Better
Blues"), is born.
1934 - United States troops leave Haiti, which it had occupied since
1915.
1941 - An African American private and a white military policeman are
shot to death on a bus in North Carolina during a fight between
African American and white soldiers. This was the first of a
series of serious racial incidents (between African American
and white soldiers and African American soldiers and white
civilians) which will continue throughout the war.
1952 - Satchel Paige, at age 46, becomes the oldest pitcher to complete
a major-league baseball game. Paige shuts out the Detroit
Tigers 1-0 in a 12-inning game.
1962 - Jamaica becomes independent after 300 years of British rule.
1965 - The Voting Rights Act is signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson
in the same room that Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation
Proclamation. Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Jr., and a host
of others witness the signing of the act, which suspends the
use of literary tests and calls for federal examiners to ensure
fair elections in the South.
1965 - David Maurice Robinson is born. He will become a NBA center (San
Antonio Spurs), NBA Rookie of Year (1990), and will lead the
NBA in scoring in 1994. He will help lead the Spurs to the NBA
Championship in 1999.
1969 - The Learning Tree, directed by Gordon Parks, Jr., premieres. The
film is the first directed by an African American in modern times.
1973 - Stevie Wonder is nearly killed in an automobile accident near
Durham, North Carolina, where he was to perform in a benefit
concert. Wonder suffers severe brain contusions and a broken
skull and will be in a coma for ten days as a result of his
injuries.
1977 - Sir Alexander Bustamante, Jamaica's first Prime Minister, joins
the ancestors.
1984 - Carl Lewis wins 2nd (long jump) of 4 gold medals in the Summer
Olympics.
1988 - Once accused by African American artists of racism, MTV, the
24-hour cable music channel, premieres Yo! MTV Raps. It will
become one of the station's most popular programs.
1994 - In Wedowee, Alabama, an apparent arson fire destroys Randolph
County High School, which had been the focus of tensions over
the principal's stand against interracial dating.
1996 - Officials announce that the Air Force had punished 16 officers
in connection with the crash that killed Commerce Secretary
Ron Brown and 34 others the previous April.
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