* Today in Black History - July 6 *
1853 - A National Black convention meets in Rochester, New York,
with 140 delegates from nine states. James W.C. Pennington
of New York is elected president of this meeting, generally
considered the largest and most representative of the early
African American conventions.
1853 - William Wells Brown publishes "Clotel," the first novel by an
African American.
1854 - The Republican Party is organized to oppose the extension of
slavery.
1864 - John Wesley Gilbert is born in Hepzibah, Georgia to a slave
family. He will attend Paine College and will later earn B.A.
(1888) and M.A. (1891) degrees in Greek at Brown University.
He will be the first African American to receive a graduate
degree from Brown University. While working on his Masters
degree, he will be awarded a fellowship to attend the American
School of Classical Studies in Athens, Greece in 1890, the
first person of African descent to do so, and will help to
draw a map of Eretria (American Journal of Archaeology, 1891).
He will teach Greek at Paine College in Augusta, Georgia until
he joins the ancestors in 1923.
1868 - Eighty-five African Americans and 70 white representatives meet
in Columbia, South Carolina, at the opening of the state's
General Assembly. It is the first and last U.S. legislature
with an African American majority.
1869 - African American candidate for Lt. Governor of Virginia, Dr.
J.H. Harris, is defeated by a vote of 120,068 to 99,600.
1931 - Deloreese Patricia Early is born in Detroit, Michigan. She will
become a singer known as Della Reese. As a teen-ager, she will
tour with gospel great Mahalia Jackson and, at the age of 18,
will form the Meditation Singers and become the first performer
to take gospel music to the casinos of Las Vegas. She will
become the first African American female to host a daytime
television talk show (1969-70) and will appear in numerous
television series, including "Sanford and Son," "The A-Team"
and, on the CBS Television Network, "Crazy Like a Fox" and
"Picket Fences." She will also star as a series regular in
"Charlie & Company" and "The Royal Family", both on the CBS
Network. In September, 1994, she became a regular on the award
winning show, "Touched By An Angel."
1957 - Althea Gibson becomes the first African American tennis player
to win a Wimbledon singles title, defeating fellow American
Darlene Hard 6-3, 6-2. She will also team up with Darlene
Hard to win the doubles championship.
1964 - Malawi (then Nyasaland) gains independence from Great Britain.
1966 - Malawi becomes a republic.
1967 - The Biafran War erupts as Nigerian troops invade. The war will
last more than two years, claiming some 600,000 lives.
1971 - Louis Armstrong joins the ancestors in Corona, Queens, in New
York City. Armstrong had been one of the most popular and
influential jazz musicians since his 1929 hit "Ain't
Misbehavin" and had enjoyed an immensely successful performing
and recording career.
1975 - The Comoros Islands declare independence from France. The
deputies of Mayotte refuse, and thus that island nation
remains under French control. The official languages in Comoros
are Arabic and French, but the vernacular is a Comorian variant
of Swahili. It is an island nation located in the Indian Ocean
near Madagascar approximately 250 miles off the coast of Africa.
1984 - Michael Jackson and his brothers start their "Victory Tour" in
Kansas City, Missouri's Arrowhead Stadium. The tour turns out
to be a victory for the Jacksons when the nationwide concert
tour concludes months later.
1990 - Jesse Owens is honored on a stamp issued by the U.S. Postal
Service. Owens was a four-time Olympic gold medal winner in the
1936 Summer Games in Berlin.
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