* Today in Black History - June 1 *
1835 - The Fifth National Negro Convention recommends that Blacks remove
the word "African" from the titles of their organizations and
discontinue referring to themselves as "colored."
1843 - Sojourner Truth leaves New York and begins her career as an anti-
slavery activist.
1868 - The Texas constitutional convention convenes in Austin with
eighty-one whites and nine African Americans in attendance.
1868 - The Florida General Assembly meets in Tallahassee with fifty-
seven whites and nineteen African Americans in attendance.
1868 - Solomon George Washington Dill, white ally of African American
Republicans, is assassinated in his home by white terrorists.
Dill had allegedly made "incendiary speeches" to South Carolina
African Americans.
1921 - A major race riot occurs in the Greenwood section of Tulsa,
Oklahoma. Twenty-one whites and sixty African Americans will be
killed according to some sources. The destruction caused in the
area referred to as "Black Wall Street," prompts the first
American Red Cross response to a man-made disaster. The Red
Cross will report that 1115 houses and businesses belonging to
African Americans were burned down, and another 314 were looted.
Their statistics will also show that 300 persons were killed, a much
higher figure than chronicled by other historical sources. For
more information about the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921, go to
http://www.informationman.com/blkwallst.htm.
1935 - Frederick Eikerenkoetter is born in Ridgeland, South Carolina. He will
receive a B.A. in Theology from the American Bible College in Chicago,
Illinois in 1955 and become a minister better known as "Reverend Ike."
He will be the first African American minister with a television show
and will report a following of close to 7,000,000 by 1982.
1937 - Morgan Freeman is born in Memphis, Tennessee. Making his acting
debut in an all African American cast of "Hello Dolly" in 1968, Freeman
will also have a major role in the television program "The Electric
Company" before breaking into movies. He will receive an Academy
Award nomination for his role in "Street Smart," and star in "Clean
and Sober" and Lean on Me." He will be nominated again for a
supporting role in "Glory" and for his starring role in "Driving Miss
Daisy." He will make his directing debut in 1993 with the film,
"Bopha," a drama set in South Africa under the policy of apartheid.
1941 - The first African American tank battalion, the 758th, is activated.
1942 - The Marine Corps begins enlistment of African Americans at Camp
Lejeune, North Carolina.
1948 - Johnny Lee "Sonny Boy" Williamson joins the ancestors in Chicago,
Illinois at the age of 34 after being murdered on the front steps of
his home. He was a master of the blues harmonica and transformed
the instrument from a novelty into a major component of Chicago-
style blues. He will be inducted into the Blues Foundation's Hall of
Fame in 1980.
1966 - Approximately 2,400 persons attend a White House Conference on Civil
Rights.
1973 - WGPR-TV (Channel 62) in Detroit, Michigan, is granted a permit to
operate. It is the first television station owned by African
Americans.
1997 - Betty Shabazz, widow of Malcolm X, is fatally burned in a fire set
by her 12-year-old grandson in her Yonkers, New York, apartment.
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