*      Today in Black History - June 30         *
   
  1881 - Henry Highland Garnet, former abolitionist leader and 
 Presbyterian minister, is named Minister to Liberia.  
 He will join the ancestors in Monrovia shortly after 
 his arrival.
   
  1906 - John Hope becomes the first African American president 
 of Morehouse College.
   
  1917 - Lena Horne is born in Brooklyn, New York.  She will 
 begin her career at 16 as a chorus girl at the Cotton 
 Club in Harlem, appear in the movies "Cabin in the Sky" 
 and "Stormy Weather" and have a successful Broadway 
 career culminating in her one-woman show.  Horne will 
 also be a strong civil rights advocate, refusing to 
 perform in clubs where African Americans are not 
 admitted and marching during the civil rights movement 
 in the 1960s.
   
  1921 - Charles S. Gilpin becomes the first actor to receive the 
 NAACP's Spingarn Medal for his portrayal of Emperor 
 Jones in the Eugene O'Neill play of the same name.
   
  1940 - John T. Scott is born in New Orleans, Louisiana.  He will
 become a professor of art and a sculptor whose works will
 be exhibited widely in the U.S. and at the exhibit of 
 "Art of Black America in Japan, Afro-American Modernism: 
 1937-1987."
   
  1958 - Alabama courts fined the NAACP $ 100,000 for contempt, for
 refusing to divulge membership.  The U.S. Supreme Court 
 will reverse the decision.
   
  1960 - Zaire proclaims its independence from Belgium.
   
  1966 - Michael Gerard "Mike" Tyson, former heavyweight champion of
 the world and youngest (at age 19) to win that title (WBC 
 in 1986), is born in Brooklyn, New York.
   
  1967 - Maj. Robert H. Lawrence Jr. becomes the first African 
 American astronaut.  He will join the ancestors after 
 being killed during a training flight accident on December
 8, 1967.
   
  1969 - Jacob Lawrence receives the NAACP's Spingarn Medal "in 
 testimony to his eminence among American painters."
   
  1974 - Alberta King, mother of the late Martin Luther King Jr.,
 joins the ancestors after being assassinated during a 
 church service in Atlanta, Georgia.  The assailant, Marcus
 Chennault of Dayton, Ohio, is later convicted and sentenced
 to death.
   
  1978 - Larry Doby becomes the manager of the Chicago White Sox 
 baseball team.  He will have a win-loss record of 37-50 and
 will be fired at the end of the season (October 19).
   
  1980 - Coleman A. Young is awarded the Spingarn Medal for his 
 "singular accomplishment as Mayor of the City of Detroit,"a
 position he had held since 1973.
   
  2001 - Saxophonist Joe Henderson joins the ancestors in San 
 Francisco.  His improvisational style and compositions have
 influenced jazz musicians everywhere. He had been suffering 
 from emphysema, and became ill at his home in San Francisco, 
 but did not go to the hospital until the following day, where
 he died of heart failure.

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