*                   Today in Black History - June 12                *

1826 - Sarah Parker Remond is born in Salem, Massachusetts.  She 
        will become a major abolitionist.

1840 - The World's Anti-Slavery Convention convenes in London, 
        England.  Among those in attendance will be African American 
        Charles Remond, who will refuse to be seated at the meeting 
        when he and the other delegates learn that women are being 
        segregated in the gallery.

1876 - A monument is dedicated to Richard Allen in Philadelphia's
        Fairmount Park.  It is the first known monument erected by
        African Americans to honor one of their heroes.

1935 - Ella Fitzgerald records her first record for Brunswick Records.
        The songs on the record were "Love and Kisses" and "I'll Chase 
        the Blues Away".  She is featured with Chick Webb and his band. 
        Ella is 17 years old at the time and will conduct the Webb 
        band for three years following his death in 1939.

1961 - The Hinds County Mississippi Board of Supervisors announce that 
        more than one hundred "Freedom Riders" had been arrested.

1963 - Medgar Evers, field secretary for the Mississippi NAACP, joins
        the ancestors after being killed in the driveway outside his 
        home in Jackson, Mississippi.   The African American civil rights 
        leader is shot to death by white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith. 
        During World War II, Evers volunteered for the U.S. Army and 
        participated in the Normandy invasion. In 1952, he joined the 
        National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). 
        As a field worker for the NAACP, Evers traveled through his home 
        state encouraging poor African Americans to register to vote and 
        recruiting them into the civil rights movement. He was instrumental 
        in getting witnesses and evidence for the Emmitt Till murder case, 
        which brought national attention to the plight of African Americans 
        in the South. He will be widely mourned throughout the civil rights 
        movement and posthumously receives the NAACP's Spingarn Medal.

1963 - Civil rights group demonstrates at Harlem construction sites 
        to protest discrimination in the building trade unions.

1967 - The U.S. Supreme Court strikes down a Virginia miscegenation 
        law (marriage or cohabitation between whites and non-whites).	
        This decision establishes that no state law can prohibit 
        interracial marriages. 

1967 - A racially motivated civil disturbance occurs in Cincinnati, Ohio.  
        Three hundred persons are arrested, and the National Guard is 
        mobilized.

1972 - The National Black MBA Association is incorporated.  An organization 
        of over 2,000 minority holders of advanced business degrees, the 
        organization's mission is to assist the entry of interested 
        minorities into the business community.

1981 - Larry Holmes defends his heavyweight boxing title by earning a third-
        round TKO (technical knockout) over Leon Spinks in Detroit,
Michigan.

1989 - The U.S. Supreme Court expands the abilities of white males to 
        challenge court-approved affirmative action plans, even years 
        after they take effect. 

1995 - The Supreme Court deals a potentially crippling blow to federal 
        affirmative action programs, ruling Congress was limited by the
        same strict standards as states in offering special help to 
        minorities.

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