*      Today in Black History - June 26                    *


1893 - William Lee Conley "Big Bill" Broonzy, blues singer, is born in
       Scott, Mississippi.

1894 - The American Railway Union, led by Eugene Debs, calls a general
        strike in sympathy with Pullman workers.

1934 - W.E.B. Du Bois resigns from the NAACP over the association's
        policies and strategies.  Du Bois had been editor of the
        association's "Crisis" magazine and director of publicity and
        research.  The resignation brings control of the magazine under
        the leadership of of chief executive Walter White and its new
        editor and NAACP assistant secretary, Roy Wilkins.

1938 - James Weldon Johnson, joins the ancestors after succumbing to
        injuries received in an automobile accident near his summer home
        in Wiscosset, Maine.

1940 - Billy Davis Jr., singer with the 5th Dimension, is born in St. Louis,
        Missouri.

1950 - The American Medical Association seats the first African American
        delegates at its convention.

1952 - The African National Congress begins its Defiance of Unjust Laws
        campaign in South Africa.

1956 - Jazz trumpeter Clifford Brown joins the ancestors after being killed
        in an auto accident on the Pennsylvania Turnpike.  Founder of the
        Brown-Roach Quintet with Max Roach two years earlier, Brown had
        built a reputation as one of the finest jazz trumpeters of his day
        as a major proponent of hard bop.

1959 - Prince Edward County, Virginia, abandons (closes) the public school
        system in an attempt to prevent school desegregation.

1959 - Floyd Paterson loses the Heavyweight Boxing Championship to Ingemar
        Johansson of Sweden.

1966 - The 220-mile voter registration march from Memphis, Tennessee to
        Jackson, Mississippi ends with a rally of some thirty thousand at
        the Mississippi state capitol.

1970 - Frank Robinson hits 2 grand slams as Baltimore Orioles beat the
        Washington Senators 12-2.

1960 - Madagascar becomes independent from France.

1978 - "Girl," a single-sentence two page short story of a mother's preachy
        advice to her daughter, appears in the "New Yorker" magazine.
        Written by Jamaica Kincaid, the story will make her a literary
        celebrity and will be followed by short story collections and the
        novels "Annie John" and "Lucy".

1979 - Muhammad Ali announces that he was retiring as world heavyweight
        boxing champion. The 37-year-old fighter said, "Everything gets old,
        and you can't go on like years ago." The "Float like a butterfly,
        sting like a bee" act was no more.

1990 - African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela addresses the U.S.
        Congress, asking for "material resources" to hasten the end of
        white-led rule in South Africa.

1995 - During a state visit to Ethiopia, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak
        escapes an attempt on his life.

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