* Today in Black History - June 3 *
1833 - The fourth national Black convention meets in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania with sixty-two delegates from eight states. Abraham
D. Shadd of Pennsylvania is elected president.
1854 - Two thousand United States troops escort celebrated fugitive slave,
Anthony Burns through the streets of Boston.
1871 - Miles Vandehurst Lynk is born near Brownsville, Tennessee. A
physician at 19, he founds the first African American medical
journal, the "Medical and Surgical Observer," and will be one
of the organizers of what will later become the National Medical
Association.
1887 - Roland Hayes is born in Curryville, Tennessee. A noted concert
artist, Hayes will be the first African American to give a concert
in Boston's Symphony Hall. His career will take him throughout the
U.S. and to London for a command performance before King George V.
He will be awarded the Spingarn Medal in 1924 for his musical
accomplishments. He will join the ancestors in 1977.
1904 - Charles R. Drew, creator of the plasma method of blood preservation,
is born in Washington, DC. He will receive the NAACP's Spingarn
Medal for his contributions in 1944 and, in 1981, be posthumously
honored by the U.S. Postal Service with a commemorative stamp.
He will join the ancestors on April 1, 1950.
1906 - Freda McDonald is born in St. Louis, Missouri. She will become a
singer and entertainer known as Josephine Baker. A chorus girl in
the 1923 musical "Shuffle Along," she will travel to Paris,
introduce "le jazz hot" in the show "La Revue Negre," and will
cause a sensation with the Folies Bergeres when she performs
topless on a mirror, wearing a rubber banana skirt. A World War II
Red Cross volunteer, Baker will perform for the Allied troops and
in the 1950's she will tour the U.S., fighting for desegregated
theaters and restaurants. She will join the ancestors in 1975.
1919 - Liberty Life Insurance Company in Chicago, Illinois, the first
old-line legal reserve company organized by African Americans in
the North, is incorporated.
1942 - Curtis Mayfield is born in Chattanooga, Tennessee and will be raised
in Chicago, Illinois. He will become a singer, songwriter, and
producer. He will be a member of the group The Impressions. He
will write many hits for the group, Jerry Butler and himself. He
will start a successful solo career in 1970. He will become
paralyzed from the chest down in 1990 when a stage lighting tower
falls on him. After recuperating, he will still continue to
perform. He will join the ancestors on Sunday, December 26, 1999.
1946 - In its "Morgan vs. Commonwealth of Virginia" ruling, the U.S.
Supreme Court bars segregation in interstate bus travel.
1949 - Wesley Anthony Brown becomes the first African American to graduate
from the U.S. Naval Academy.
1951 - Deniece Chandler is born in Gary, Indiana. She will become a singer
and will be known as Deniece Williams. She will get her first
break as a member of Stevie Wonder's backup group Wonderlove during
1972-75. She will grow into a successful solo career in both
secular and gospel music.
1997 - Harvey Johnson, who defeats the incumbent mayor in the Democratic
Primary, is elected Jackson, Mississippi's first African American
mayor, defeating the Republican candidate by more than two-to-one.
Johnson, an urban planner and former state tax commissioner, was
making his second run to head the city of about 200,000. He upset
incumbent Kane Ditto to earn the right to face GOP businesswoman
Charlotte Reeves in the general election.
1997 - Bro. Mosi Hoj issues the email that will establish the beginning
of the "Today in Black History" series that will eventually be
known as the "Munirah Chronicle."
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