* Today in Black History - June 26 *
1893 - William Lee Conley "Big Bill" Broonzy, blues singer,
is born in Scott, Mississippi.
1894 - The American Railway Union, led by Eugene Debs, calls
a general strike in sympathy with Pullman workers.
1934 - W.E.B. Du Bois resigns from the NAACP over the
association's policies and strategies. Du Bois had
been editor of the association's "Crisis" magazine and
director of publicity and research. The resignation
brings control of the magazine under the leadership of
chief executive Walter White and its new editor and
NAACP assistant secretary, Roy Wilkins.
1938 - James Weldon Johnson, joins the ancestors after
succumbing to injuries received in an automobile
accident near his summer home in Wiscosset, Maine.
1940 - Billy Davis Jr., singer with the 5th Dimension, is
born in St. Louis, Missouri. He will later leave the
group with his wife, Marilyn McCoo, with whom he will
enjoy continued success as a duo.
1950 - The American Medical Association seats the first
African American delegates at its convention.
1952 - The African National Congress begins its Defiance of
Unjust Laws campaign in South Africa.
1956 - Jazz trumpeter Clifford Brown joins the ancestors
after being killed in an auto accident on the
Pennsylvania Turnpike. Founder of the Brown-Roach
Quintet with Max Roach two years earlier, Brown had
built a reputation as one of the finest jazz
trumpeters of his day as a major proponent of hard bop.
1959 - Prince Edward County, Virginia, abandons (closes) the
public school system in an attempt to prevent school
desegregation.
1959 - Floyd Paterson loses the Heavyweight Boxing
Championship to Ingemar Johansson of Sweden.
1966 - The 220-mile voter registration march from Memphis,
Tennessee to Jackson, Mississippi ends with a rally of
some thirty thousand at the Mississippi state capitol.
1970 - Frank Robinson hits 2 grand slams as Baltimore Orioles
beat the Washington Senators 12-2.
1960 - Madagascar becomes independent from France.
1978 - "Girl," a single-sentence two page short story of a
mother's preachy advice to her daughter, appears in the
"New Yorker" magazine. Written by Jamaica Kincaid, the
story will make her a literary celebrity and will be
followed by short story collections and the novels
"Annie John" and "Lucy".
1979 - Muhammad Ali announces that he was retiring as world
heavyweight boxing champion. The 37-year-old fighter
said, "Everything gets old, and you can't go on like
years ago." The "Float like a butterfly, sting like a
bee" act was no more.
1990 - African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela
addresses the U.S. Congress, asking for "material
resources" to hasten the end of white-led rule in South
Africa.
1995 - During a state visit to Ethiopia, Egyptian President
Hosni Mubarak escapes an attempt on his life.
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