*                   Today in Black History - July 17                  *

1794 - Richard Allen organizes Philadelphia's Bethel African Methodist
        Episcopal Church.

1794 - Absalom Jones and his followers dedicate The African Church of
        St. Thomas in Philadelphia.  On August 12, 1794, the St. Thomas
        parishioners will affiliate with the Protestant Episcopal Church.

1862 - Congress approves the rights of African Americans to bear arms
        to fight in the Civil War and enlist in the Union Army by
        passing two laws, the Confiscation and Militia acts.   Over
        208,000 African Americans and their white officers will serve
        in the Union Army, with 38,000 losing their lives.

1863 - Unions troops, with First Kansas volunteers playing a leading
        role, route rebels at Honey Springs, Indian Territory. African
        American troops capture the colors of a Texas regiment.

1911 - Frank Snowden is born in York County, Virginia.  He will become
        the foremost scholar on blacks in ancient history, notably for
        his books "Blacks in Antiquity: Ethiopians in the Greco-Roman
        Experience" and "Before Color Prejudice: The Ancient View of
        Blacks".

1935 - Carol Diahann Johnson (Diahann Carroll) is born in the Bronx,
        New York.  She will be better known as Diahann Carroll, star
        of Broadway ("House of Flowers"), television ("Julia"), and
        films including "Carmen Jones" and "Claudine", the latter
        earning her an Academy Award nomination as Best Actress.

1944 - An ammunitions depot at Port Chicago, California explodes killing
        320 men including 202 African Americans assigned by the Navy to
        handle explosives.  The resulting refusal of 258 African Americans
        to return to the dangerous work formed the basis of the trial and
        conviction of 50 of the men in what will become known as the Port
        Chicago Mutiny.

1959 - Billie Holiday, blues singer, joins the ancestors after succumbing
        to liver failure at age 44 in Metropolitan Hospital, New York
        City.

1967 - A racially motivated disturbance occurs in Cairo, Illinois (within
        100 miles of the Mississippi border.  The Illinois National Guard
        is mobilized during the three day civil disturbance.

1967 - Innovative and famed jazz musician, John Coltrane joins the ancestors
        after succumbing to cirrhosis of the liver.

1981 - The Fulton County (Atlanta) grand jury indicts Wayne B. Williams,
        a twenty-three-year-old photographer, for the murder of two of the
        twenty-eight Black youths killed in a series of slayings and
        disappearances in Atlanta. William denies the charges but will be
        convicted in February, 1982.

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