*		    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, closes 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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