* Today in Black History - August 6 *
1795 - Absalom Jones is ordained a deacon in the Protestant
Episcopal Church.
1816 - Peter Salem, Battle of Bunker Hill hero, joins the
ancestors in Framingham, Massachusetts.
1861 - Congress passes The First Confiscation Act, authorizing
the appropriation of the property, including slaves, of
rebel slaveholders.
1925 - African American lawyers organize the National Bar
Association and name George H. Woodson of Des Moines,
Iowa, as President, and Wendell Gree of Chicago,
Illinois, as Secretary.
1930 - Abbey Lincoln, actress/singer ("Nothing But a Man", "Mo
Better Blues"), is born.
1934 - United States troops leave Haiti, which it had occupied
since 1915.
1941 - An African American private and a white military policeman
are shot to death on a bus in North Carolina during a
fight between African American and white soldiers. This
is the first of a series of serious racial incidents
(between African American and white soldiers and African
American soldiers and white civilians) which will
continue throughout the war.
1952 - Satchel Paige, at age 46, becomes the oldest pitcher to
complete a major-league baseball game. Paige, pitching
for the Cleveland Indians, shuts out the Detroit Tigers
1-0 in a 12-inning game.
1962 - Jamaica becomes independent after 300 years of British
rule.
1965 - The Voting Rights Act is signed by President Lyndon B.
Johnson in the same room that Abraham Lincoln signed the
Emancipation Proclamation. Rosa Parks, Martin Luther
King, Jr., and a host of others witness the signing of
the act, which suspends the use of literary tests and
calls for federal examiners to ensure fair elections in
the South.
1965 - David Maurice Robinson is born. He will become a NBA center
(San Antonio Spurs), NBA Rookie of Year (1990), and will
lead the NBA in scoring in 1994. He will help lead the
Spurs to the NBA Championship in 1999.
1969 - The Learning Tree, directed by Gordon Parks, Jr., premieres.
The film is the first directed by an African American in
modern times.
1973 - Stevie Wonder is nearly killed in an automobile accident
near Durham, North Carolina, where he was to perform in a
benefit concert. Wonder suffers severe brain contusions
and a broken skull and will be in a coma for ten days as a
result of his injuries.
1977 - Sir Alexander Bustamante joins the ancestors exactly 15
years after Jamaica receives its independence and his
appointment as the country's first Prime Minister. The
country will continue to honour his memory and there will
be countless Jamaicans who continue to say "We will follow
Busta till we dead."
1984 - Carl Lewis wins 2nd (long jump) of 4 gold medals in the
Summer Olympics.
1988 - Once accused by African American artists of racism, MTV,
the 24-hour cable music channel, premieres "Yo! MTV Raps."
It will become one of the station's most popular programs.
1994 - In Wedowee, Alabama, an apparent arson fire destroys
Randolph County High School, which had been the focus of
tensions over the principal's stand against interracial
dating.
1996 - Officials announce that the Air Force had punished 16
officers in connection with the crash that killed Commerce
Secretary Ron Brown and 34 others the previous April.
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