* Today in Black History - June 9 *
1877 - Meta Vaux Warwick (later Fuller) is born in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania. She will become a sculptor who will train
at the Pennsylvania Museum and School for Industrial Arts
and travel to Paris to study with Auguste Rodin. Her
sculptures will be exhibited at the salon in Paris as well
as extensively in the U.S. for 60 years. Her most famous
works will include "Ethiopia Awakening," "Mary Turner (A
Silent Protest Against Mob Violence)," and "The Talking
Skull."
1934 - Jackie Wilson, entertainer who will be known as "Mr.
Excitement," is born in Detroit, Michigan.
1948 - Oliver W. Hill becomes the first African American to be
elected to the Richmond, Virginia City Council.
1963 - Fannie Lou Hamer and five other voter registration
workers were arrested in Winona, Mississippi on their way
home from a workshop in Charleston, SC. They were held in
the Winona jail for four days, during which they were
severely beaten with nightsticks and fists by policemen,
and with leather straps by prison trustees under the
direction of police officers.
1978 - Larry Holmes wins the WBC heavyweight title by defeating
Ken Norton in Las Vegas, Nevada.
1980 - Comedian Richard Pryor suffers almost fatal burns at his
San Fernando Valley, California home, when a mixture of
"free-base" cocaine explodes.
1983 - Scott Joplin, noted jazz musician and composer of ragtime
music, is the sixth African-American depicted in the U.S.
Postal Service's Black Heritage USA commemorative series
of postage stamps.
1998 - Three white men are charged in Jasper, Texas, with the
brutal dragging death of James Byrd Jr., an African
American.
1998 - Artist Lois Mailou Jones joins the ancestors in
Washington, DC.
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