*                   Today in Black History - July 15                   *

1822 - The city of Philadelphia opens its public schools for African
        Americans. 

1864 - General A. J. Smith, with fourteen thousand men, including a 
        brigade of African American troops, defeats Nathan B. Forrest at 
        Harrisburg, near Tupelo, Mississippi.

1869 - A.J. Hayne, an African-American captain of the Arkansas militia, is
        assassinated.

1929 - Francis Bebey is born in Cameroon.  He will become a self-taught 
        master guitarist, composer, and sanza player.

1945 - Gene Upshaw, ex-NFL offensive tackle (Oakland Raiders), and president
        of the NFL Players Association, is born. 

1951 - Mary White Ovington, one of the founders of the NAACP and author of 
        "The Walls Come Tumbling Down," a history of the NAACP, joins the 
        ancestors.

1961 - Forest Whitaker, actor and director, ("The Crying Game," 
        "Bloodsport," "Platoon," "Phenomenon," "Waiting to Exhale" (Dir.)),
is 
        born.

1968 - Ellen Holly integrates daytime television when she appears on ABC's 
        "One Life To Live" as Carla, an African American "passing" for
white.
        The role is a marked departure for the New York City-born African 
        American, whose first professional role was with Joseph Papp's New 
        York Shakespeare Festival as the white Desdemona to William
Marshall's 
        Othello in 1958.  Holly had been a featured player in Papp's company

        and had played several Shakespearean roles, including Lady Macbeth 
        opposite James Earl Jones in "Macbeth" and Princess Katherine
opposite 
        Robert Hooks in Henry V, before being signed to the soap opera.

1969 - Rod Carew ties the major league record with his 7th steal of home in 
        a season.

1970 - James McGhee is sworn in as the first African American mayor of 
        Dayton, Ohio.

1973 - Willie McCovey becomes 15th major league player to hit 400 Home Runs.


1980 - Benjamin Hooks addresses the GOP convention after a lobbying effort 
        and threatened walkout by 121 African American delegates. Hooks
speaks 
        before the convention despite leading candidate Ronald Reagan's 
        refusal to appear at the NAACP convention earlier in the month.

1980 - New violence erupts in the riot-torn Liberty City section of Miami, 
        Florida.  Two months after riots that killed 18 and resulted in $
100 
        million in property damage, the violence will leave 40 injured and 
        result in 40 arrests.

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