*                   Today in Black History - July 5                     *

1852 - At a meeting sponsored by the Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society,
        in Rochester Hall, Rochester, New York, Frederick Douglass
illustrates
        the full shame of slavery, delivering a speech that takes aim at the

        pieties of the nation -- the cherished memories of its revolution,
its 
        principles of liberty, and its moral and religious foundation.  The 
        Fourth of July, a day celebrating freedom, is used by Douglass to 
        remind his audience of liberty's unfinished business.  "What to the 
        American Slave is Your Fourth of July?": "To him your celebration is
a 
        sham...to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages.

        There is not a nation of the earth guilty of practices more shocking

        and bloody than are the people of the United States at this very 
        hour." The text of this speech can be seen on the Information Man's 
        web site http://www.informationman.com/douglass.htm .	

1892 - Andrew Beard is issued patent number 478,271 for his rotary engine.

1899 - Anna Arnold (later Hedgeman) is born in Marshalltown, Iowa. Hedgeman 
        will be the first African American woman to serve in the cabinet of
a 
        New York City mayor (1954), a special projects coordinator for the 
        Commission on Religion and Race of the National Council of Churches,

        and recruiter of 40,000 Protestant churchmen to participate in the 
        1963 March on Washington.

1913 - Smiley Lewis is born in Dequincy, Louisiana.  He will become a rhythm

        and blues vocalist and best known for his song, "I Hear You
Knockin'."

1947 - The first African American baseball player in the American League 
        joins the lineup of the Cleveland Indians.  Larry Doby plays his
first 
        game against the Chicago White Sox.   He will play for both the 
        Indians and the White Sox during his 13-year, major-league career. 

1949 - The New York Giants purchase the contracts of Monty Irvin & Henry 
        Thompson, their first African American players. 

1966 - Three nights of race rioting in Omaha, Nebraska, result in the 
        calling out of the National Guard.

1969 - Tom Mboya, Economics Minister, joins the ancestors after being 
        assassinated in Narobi, Kenya.
 
1975 - Arthur Ashe becomes the first African American to win the Wimbledon 
        Men's Singles Championship when he defeats Jimmy Conners.

1975 - The Cape Verde Islands gain independence after 500 years of 
        Portuguese rule.

1975 - Forty persons are injured in racial disturbances in Miami, Florida.

1989 - Barry Bond's home run sets father-son (Bobby) HR record at 408.  

1990 - Zina Garrison upsets Steffi Graf in the Wimbledon semi-finals.

1994 - In an attempt to halt a surge of Haitian refugees, the Clinton 
        administration announces it is refusing entry to new Haitian boat 
        people.

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