*                   Today in Black History - June 30                    *

1881 - Henry Highland Garnet, former abolitionist leader and Presbyterian 
        minister, is named Minister to Liberia.  He will join the ancestors 
        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 - Michael Gerard "Mike" Tyson, former heavyweight champion of the world
        and youngest (at age 19) to win that title (WBC in 1986), is born in

        Brooklyn, New York.

1967 - Maj. Robert H. Lawrence Jr. becomes the first African American 
        astronaut.  He will join the ancestors after being 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.,  joins
        the ancestors after being 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 fired 
        at the end of the season (October 19).

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

2001 - Saxophonist Joe Henderson joins the ancestors in San Francisco.  
        His improvisational style and compositions have influenced jazz 
        musicians everywhere. He had been suffering from emphysema, and 
        become ill at his home in San Francisco, but did not go to the 
        hospital until the following day, where he died of heart failure.

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