*                 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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