*                    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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