*                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.

1938 - Billie Lee Williams, baseball player (Rookie of the Year 1961),
        and Chicago Cubs outfielder, is born.

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, dies.

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 - Meanwhile, 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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        The source for these facts are "Encyclopedia Britannica,
        "InfoBeat," "I, Too, Sing America - The African American
        Book of Days," "Before the Mayflower", "Black Firsts" and
        independent research by the Information Man.
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