* Today in Black History - June 30 *
1881 - Henry Highland Garnet, former abolitionist leader and Presbyterian
minister, is named Minister to Liberia. He will join the ancestors
in Monrovia shortly after his arrival.
1906 - John Hope becomes the first African American president of Morehouse
College.
1917 - Lena Horne is born in Brooklyn, New York. She will begin her career
at 16 as a chorus girl at the Cotton Club in Harlem, appear in the
movies "Cabin in the Sky" and "Stormy Weather" and have a successful
Broadway career culminating in her one-woman show. Horne will also
be a strong civil rights advocate, refusing to perform in clubs where
African Americans are not admitted and marching during the civil
rights movement in the 1960s.
1921 - Charles S. Gilpin becomes the first actor to receive the NAACP's
Spingarn Medal for his portrayal of Emperor Jones in the Eugene
O'Neill play of the same name.
1940 - John T. Scott is born in New Orleans, Louisiana. He will become
a professor of art and a sculptor whose works will be exhibited
widely in the U.S. and at the exhibit of "Art of Black America
in Japan, Afro-American Modernism: 1937-1987."
1958 - Alabama courts fined the NAACP $ 100,000 for contempt, for refusing
to divulge membership. The U.S. Supreme Court will reverse the
decision.
1960 - Zaire proclaims its independence from Belgium.
1966 - Mike Tyson, former heavyweight champion of the world and youngest
(at age 19) to win that title (WBC in 1986), is born.
1967 - Maj. Robert H. Lawrence Jr. becomes the first African American
astronaut. He will join the ancestors after being killed during a
training flight accident on December 8, 1967.
1969 - Jacob Lawrence receives the NAACP's Spingarn Medal " in testimony
to his eminence among American painters."
1974 - Alberta King, mother of the late Martin Luther King Jr., joins
the ancestors after being assassinated during a church service in
Atlanta, Georgia. The assailant, Marcus Chennault of Dayton,
Ohio, is later convicted and sentenced to death.
1978 - Larry Doby becomes the manager of the Chicago White Sox baseball
team. He will have a win-loss record of 37-50 and will be fired
at the end of the season (October 19).
1980 - Coleman A. Young is awarded the Spingarn Medal for his "singular
accomplishment as Mayor of the City of Detroit," a position he
had held since 1973.
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