* Today in Black History - July 16 *
1829 - A poem in tribute to the late Philadelphia caterer Robert Bogle is
published. Bogle is the first known professional African American
caterer. Among his descendants will be Robert W. Bogle, publisher
of the Philadelphia "Tribune", and Donald Bogle, noted film critic
and author of "Black Americans in Film and Television".
1862 - Ida B. Wells (later Barnett) is born in Holly Springs, Mississippi.
She will become a journalist and anti-lynching advocate who, in
response to the alarming increase in lynchings of African Americans,
will compile and publish an 1895 statistical study on lynching, "A
Red Record." Wells-Barnett will also be an integral part of the
early civil rights movement, participating as a secretary of the
National Afro-American Council and member of the "Committee of Forty"
that leads to the formation of the NAACP.
1894 - A group of African-American miners in Alabama are killed by striking
white miners.
1904 - Harold Dadford West, the first African American president of Meharry
Medical College, is born in Flemington, New Jersey.
1930 - Donald McKayle is born in New York City. McKayle will make his
debut,
at 22, in "Her Name was Harriet" (a dance tribute to Harriet Tubman)
and go on to dance in or choreograph "House of Flowers", "The Bill
Cosby Special" (1968), the 1970 Academy Awards, the movie version of
"The Great White Hope," and "Sophisticated Ladies" on Broadway.
1932 - Mari Evans is born in Toledo, Ohio. She will become an author and be
best known for the poetry collections "I Am a Black Woman and
Nightstar: 1973-1978."
1934 - Donald Payne is born in Newark, New Jersey. In 1988, he will become
the first African American congressman from New Jersey.
1936 - The movie "The Green Pastures" premieres in New York's Radio City
Music Hall, featuring Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, the Hall Johnson
Choir, and Rex Ingram as "De Lawd." The film, a Warner Brothers
production, was William Keighley's adaptation of Marc Connelly's
Pulitzer Prize winning Broadway musical.
1961 - Ralph Boston of the United States, sets what is then the long jump
record at 27' 2".
1977 - Janelle Penny Commissiong of Trinidad and Tabago is crowned Miss
Universe. She is the first person of African descent to win the
title.
1988 - Carl Lewis runs 100 meters in 9.78 seconds. Florence Joyner runs
100 meters in women's world record time of 10.49 seconds.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee sets women's heptathlete record of 7,215
points.
1990 - Dr. Gwendolyn Baker was elected President of the New York Board
of Education, the first African American woman to hold such an
office.
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