*                   Today in Black History - August 6                   *

1795 - Absalom Jones is ordained a deacon in the Protestant Episcopal
        Church.

1816 - Peter Salem, Battle of Bunker Hill hero, joins the ancestors in
        Framingham, Massachusetts.

1861 - Congress passes The First Confiscation Act, authorizing the
        appropriation of the property, including slaves, of rebel
        slaveholders.

1925 - African American lawyers organize the National Bar Association
        and name George H. Woodson of Des Moines, Iowa, as President,
        and Wendell Gree of Chicago, Illinois, as Secretary.

1930 - Abbey Lincoln, actress/singer ("Nothing But a Man", "Mo Better
        Blues"), is born.

1934 - United States troops leave Haiti, which it had occupied since
        1915.

1941 - An African American private and a white military policeman are
        shot to death on a bus in North Carolina during a fight between
        African American and white soldiers.  This was the first of a
        series of serious racial incidents (between African American
        and white soldiers and African American soldiers and white
        civilians) which will continue throughout the war.

1952 - Satchel Paige, at age 46, becomes the oldest pitcher to complete
        a major-league baseball game.  Paige shuts out the Detroit
        Tigers 1-0 in a 12-inning game.

1962 - Jamaica becomes independent after 300 years of British rule.

1965 - The Voting Rights Act is signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson
        in the same room that Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation
        Proclamation.  Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Jr., and a host
        of others witness the signing of the act, which suspends the
        use of literary tests and calls for federal examiners to ensure
        fair elections in the South.

1965 - David Maurice Robinson is born. He will become a NBA center (San
        Antonio Spurs), NBA Rookie of Year (1990), and will lead the
        NBA in scoring in 1994.  He will help lead the Spurs to the NBA
        Championship in 1999.

1969 - The Learning Tree, directed by Gordon Parks, Jr., premieres.  The
        film is the first directed by an African American in modern times.

1973 - Stevie Wonder is nearly killed in an automobile accident near
        Durham, North Carolina, where he was to perform in a benefit
        concert.  Wonder suffers severe brain contusions and a broken
        skull and will be in a coma for ten days as a result of his
        injuries.

1977 - Sir Alexander Bustamante, Jamaica's first Prime Minister, joins
        the ancestors.

1984 - Carl Lewis wins 2nd (long jump) of 4 gold medals in the Summer
        Olympics.

1988 - Once accused by African American artists of racism, MTV, the
        24-hour cable music channel, premieres Yo! MTV Raps.  It will
        become one of the station's most popular programs.

1994 - In Wedowee, Alabama, an apparent arson fire destroys Randolph
        County High School, which had been the focus of tensions over
        the principal's stand against interracial dating.

1996 - Officials announce that the Air Force had punished 16 officers
        in connection with the crash that killed Commerce Secretary
        Ron Brown and 34 others the previous April.

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