*                   Today in Black History - June 14                  *

1921 - Georgianna R. Simpson becomes the first African American woman to
        receive a Ph.D. when she is awarded the degree, in German, by the
        University of Chicago.

1931 - Margaret Bradley is born in Chicago, Illinois.  She will become
        a popular and enduring television personality known as Marla
        Gibbs, notable for her roles in the 'Jeffersons' and '227'.

1941 - John Edgar Wideman is born in Washington, DC.  He is will become
        a Rhodes scholar and writer of such fictional works as 'Hurry
        Home', 'Damballah', and 'Philadelphia Fire'.

1970 - Cheryl Adrienne Brown, Miss Iowa, becomes the first African
        American to compete in the Miss America beauty pageant.

1971 - The Justice Department files suit against the St. Louis suburb of
        Black Jack, charging the community with illegally using municipal
        procedures to block an integrated housing development.

1989 - Congressman William Gray, chairman of the House Democratic Caucus,
        is elected Democratic Whip of the House of Representatives, the
        highest ranking leadership position ever held by an African
        American in Congress.

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