*		    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 succumbs to heart failure.

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