*                   Today in Black History - June 28                   *

1770 - Anthony Benezet and other Quakers open a non-segregated school for
        African American and white children in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

1839 - Cinque, originally Sengbe, the son of a Mende king, along with
several
        other Africans, is kidnapped and sold into slavery in Cuba.  Cinque
        and his companions will later carry out the famous successful revolt
        upon the slave ship Amistad.  The rebels were captured off Long Island
        on August 26.

1874 - The Freedmen's Savings & Trust Company, because of mismanagement,
        closed its doors causing over 60,000 African American depositors to
        lose their $ 3 million in deposits.

1927 - Anthony Overton, president of Victory Life Insurance Company,
receives
        the NAACP's Spingarn Medal for "his successful business career
        climaxed by admission of his company as the first Negro organization
        permitted to do business under the rigid requirements of the State of
        New York."

1935 - Mary McLeod Bethune, founder and president of Bethune-Cookman
College,
        receives the Spingarn Medal from the NAACP.  Bethune is honored for
        speaking out against racism and injustice "in the South as well as in
        the North, without compromise or fear."

1936 - Major Owens, who will succeed Shirley Chisholm as Congressional
        representative from New York, is born in Memphis, Tennessee.

1946 - Thurgood Marshall receives the Spingarn Medal for his "distinguished
        service as a lawyer before the Supreme Court of the United States and
        inferior courts."

1951 - The Amos 'n' Andy Show premieres on television.  While criticized for
        racial stereotyping, it is the first show with an all African American
        cast to be successful on the small screen.

1964 - Malcolm X founds the Organization for Afro-American Unity in New
York.

1978 - The Supreme Court hands down its "Bakke" decision, ruling that the
        University of California at Davis Medical College's special admissions
        program for minority students is illegal.  As a result, Allan P. Bakke,
        a white student, is ordered admitted to the college to prevent what the
        Court considers reverse discrimination.

1990 - Jurors in the drug and perjury trial of Washington, DC, Mayor Marion
S.
        Barry Jr. view a videotape showing Barry smoking crack cocaine during
        an FBI hotel-room sting operation. Barry will be later convicted of a
        single count of misdemeanor drug possession.

1997 - Mike Tyson "sets a new standard for bizarre behavior" in the
heavyweight
        boxing championship bout with Evander Holyfield at the MGM Grand Hotel
        in Las Vegas, Nevada, when he bites off a one-inch chunk of Holyfield's
        ear in the third round.  Tyson is disqualified, and Holyfield is
        spirited away to a local hospital, where the piece of his ear is re-
        attached after being located on the canvas of the ring.

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