* Today in Black History - July 15 *
1822 - The city of Philadelphia opens its public schools for African
Americans.
1864 - General A. J. Smith, with fourteen thousand men, including a
brigade of African American troops, defeats Nathan B. Forrest at
Harrisburg, near Tupelo, Mississippi.
1869 - A.J. Hayne, an African-American captain of the Arkansas militia, is
assassinated.
1929 - Francis Bebey is born in Cameroon. He will become a self-taught
master guitarist, composer, and sanza player.
1938 - Billie Lee Williams, baseball player (Rookie of the Year 1961), and
Chicago Cubs outfielder, is born.
1945 - Gene Upshaw, ex-NFL offensive tackle (Oakland Raiders), and president
of the NFL Players Association, is born.
1951 - Mary White Ovington, one of the founders of the NAACP and author of
"The Walls Come Tumbling Down," a history of the NAACP, joins the
ancestors.
1959 - Billie Holiday joins the ancestors in New York City.
1961 - Forest Whitaker, actor and director, ("The Crying Game,"
"Bloodsport," "Platoon," "Phenomenon," "Waiting to Exhale" (Dir.)),
is born.
1968 - Ellen Holly integrates daytime television when she appears on ABC's
"One Life To Live" as Carla, an African American "passing" for
white. The role is a marked departure for the New York City-born
African American, whose first professional role was with Joseph
Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival as the white Desdemona to
William Marshall's Othello in 1958. Holly had been a featured
player in Papp's company and had played several Shakespearean
roles, including Lady Macbeth opposite James Earl Jones in
"Macbeth" and Princess Katherine opposite Robert Hooks in Henry V,
before being signed to the soap opera.
1969 - Rod Carew ties the major league record with his 7th steal of home in
a season.
1970 - James McGhee is sworn in as the first African American mayor of
Dayton, Ohio.
1973 - Willie McCovey becomes 15th major league player to hit 400 Home
Runs.
1980 - Benjamin Hooks addresses the GOP convention after a lobbying effort
and threatened walkout by 121 African American delegates. Hooks
speaks before the convention despite leading candidate Ronald
Reagan's refusal to appear at the NAACP convention earlier in the
month.
1980 - New violence erupts in the riot-torn Liberty City section of Miami,
Florida. Two months after riots that killed 18 and resulted in
$ 100 million in property damage, the violence will leave 40
injured and result in 40 arrests.
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