*      Today in Black History - July 16                   *

1829 - A poem in tribute to the late Philadelphia caterer Robert Bogle is
        published.   Bogle is the first known professional African American
        caterer.  Among his descendants will be Robert W. Bogle, publisher
        of the Philadelphia "Tribune", and Donald Bogle, noted film critic
        and author of "Black Americans in Film and Television".

1862 - Ida B. Wells (later Barnett) is born in Holly Springs, Mississippi.
        She will become a journalist and anti-lynching advocate who, in
        response to the alarming increase in lynchings of African Americans,
        will compile and publish an 1895 statistical study on lynching, "A
        Red Record."  Wells-Barnett will also be an integral part of the
        early civil rights movement, participating as a secretary of the
        National Afro-American Council and member of the "Committee of
        Forty" that leads to the formation of the NAACP.

1894 - A group of African-American miners in Alabama are killed by striking
        white miners.

1904 - Harold Dadford West, the first African American president of Meharry
        Medical College, is born in Flemington, New Jersey.

1930 - Donald McKayle is born in New York City.  McKayle will make his
        debut, at 22, in "Her Name was Harriet" (a dance tribute to Harriet
        Tubman) and go on to dance in or choreograph "House of Flowers",
        "The Bill Cosby Special" (1968), the 1970 Academy Awards, the movie
        version of "The Great White Hope," and "Sophisticated Ladies" on
        Broadway.

1932 - Mari Evans is born in Toledo, Ohio. She will become an author and be
        best known for the poetry collections "I Am a Black Woman and
        Nightstar: 1973-1978."

1934 - Donald Payne is born in Newark, New Jersey.  In 1988, he will become
        the first African American congressman from New Jersey.

1936 - The movie "The Green Pastures" premieres in New York's Radio City
        Music Hall, featuring Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, the Hall Johnson
        Choir, and Rex Ingram as "De Lawd."  The film, a Warner Brothers
        production, was William Keighley's adaptation of Marc Connelly's
        Pulitzer Prize winning Broadway musical.

1961 - Ralph Boston of the United States, sets what is then the long jump
        record at 27' 2".

1977 - Janelle Penny Commissiong of Trinidad and Tabago is crowned Miss
        Universe.  She is the first person of African descent to win the
        title.

1988 - Carl Lewis runs 100 meters in 9.78 seconds.  Florence Joyner runs
        100 meters in women's world record time of 10.49 seconds.
        Jackie Joyner-Kersee sets women's heptathlete record of 7,215
        points.

1990 - Dr. Gwendolyn Baker was elected President of the New York Board
        of Education, the first African American woman to hold such an
        office.

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