* Today in Black History - June 6 *
1716 - The first slaves arrive in Louisiana.
1779 - Haitian explorer Jean Baptiste-Pointe Du Sable founds
the first permanent settlement at the mouth of a river
on the north bank, that will become Chicago, Illinois.
1831 - The second national Black convention meets in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. There are fifteen delegates
from five states.
1869 - Dillard University is chartered in New Orleans,
Louisiana.
1934 - Roy Innis is born in the U.S. Virgin Islands and will
be raised in New York City. He will become a civil
rights activist and will join the Harlem chapter of CORE
(Congress of Racial Equality) in 1963. He will work
with the organization over the next 35 years in many
capacities including chairman.
1935 - Jesse Owens is elected Captain of the 1936 track team
at Ohio State University. He is the first African
American to hold such position on any Ohio State Team.
1935 - Robert "Bobby" Mitchell is born in Hot Springs,
Arkansas. He will become a professional football player
starting as an eighth round draft selection by the
Cleveland Browns in 1958. He will play in four Pro Bowls
(one with Cleveland and three with Washington) over his
11-year playing career and is considered one of the NFL's
all-time great multi-purpose players. When he is traded
to the Washington franchise in 1962, he becomes the first
African American to play for the team. He will become an
inductee to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1983. He
will be a prominent part of the Washington Redskins
organization for over 41 years until he retires after the
2002-2003 season.
1936 - Levi Stubbs is born. He will become a rhythm and blues
singer and a member of the group, "The Aims." The group
will start as a backup group for Levi's cousin, Jackie
Wilson. The group will change their name to "The Four
Tops" in 1956, to avoid confusion with a band. Berry
Gordy will sign the group in 1963 and launch their first
hit, "Baby, I Need Your Loving." The group will stay
together over forty years, longer than any other popular
group, with the original personnel intact.
1939 - Marion Wright (later Edelman) is born in Bennettsville,
South Carolina. In addition to becoming the first
African American woman admitted to the bar in Mississippi,
she will direct the NAACP's Legal Defense and Education
Fund in New York and Mississippi and will found the
Children's Defense Fund in 1973.
1939 - Gary Anderson is born in Jacksonville, Florida. He will
be raised in Norfolk, Virginia where he will become a
singer as a teenager, with a group called The Turks. He
will solo as Gary "U.S." Bonds in 1960 recording the hit
"New Orleans." His name will be inspired by a poster in
a Norfolk shop urging Americans to "Carry U. S. Bonds."
In 1961 when Bonds records his version of a local group's
song, "A Night with Daddy G.," it will be re-titled
"Quarter to Three" and will be a huge hit. He will
record three additional hits in the next year. After a
twenty year decline in his career, he will make a comeback
after his fan, Bruce Springsteen, begins to use "Quarter
to Three" as his encore.
1944 - The 320th Negro Anti-Aircraft Barrage Balloon Battalion
assists in the D-Day invasion in Normandy, France.
1947 - Harrison Branch is born in New York City. A student at
the San Francisco Art Institute and Yale University School
of Art, he will become a professor of art and photographer
whose works will be exhibited and collected in the U.S.
and in Europe and will appear in the landmark photography
book, "An Illustrated Bio-Bibliography of Black
Photographers," 1940-1988, edited by Deborah Wills Ryan.
1966 - James Meredith is wounded by a white sniper, as he walked
along U.S. Highway 51 near Hernando, Mississippi, on the
second day of the Memphis, Tennessee to Jackson,
Mississippi, voter registration march. Meanwhile, Stokely
Carmichael, using his newly adopted name of Kwame' Toure,
launches the Black Power movement. Toure will say that the
use of the term is not anti-white, but a phrase to denote
a political strategy.
1973 - Barry White is awarded a gold record for "I'm Gonna Love
You Just a Little More Baby". It is his first hit and his
first of five, number one, million sellers. White will
begin recording in 1960. He will form the group, Love
Unlimited, in 1969 and marry one of the group's singers,
Glodean James. He will also form the 40-piece Love
Unlimited Orchestra which will have the number one hit,
"Love's Theme." He will join the ancestors on July 4,
2003 from complications of high blood pressure and kidney
disease.
1977 - Joseph Lawson Howze is installed as bishop of the Roman
Catholic diocese of Biloxi, Mississippi. He becomes the
first African American to head a U.S. diocese in the
Catholic Church in the twentieth century.
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