*      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 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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