* Today in Black History - June 22 *
1772 - Slavery is outlawed in England.
1868 - Congress readmits the state of Arkansas on the condition that
it would never change its constitution to disenfranchise
African Americans.
1909 - Katherine Dunham is born in Joliet, Illinois. She will become
one of the revolutionary forces in modern dance through her
introduction and use of African and Caribbean styles.
Successful on the stage and in movies, including "Stormy
Weather", in the late 1960's, she will form the Katherine
Dunham Center for the Performing Arts and in 1963 was awarded
Kennedy Center honors.
1937 - Joe Louis knocks out James Braddock to become the heavyweight
boxing champion of the world. The fight is won in eight rounds
before 45,000 fans, the largest audieince to date to witness a
fight.
1938 - Joe Louis defeats German boxer Max Schmeling in a rematch of
their 1936 fight and retains his world heavyweight crown.
Because of the Nazi persecution of Jews in Europe and Hitler's
disdain for people of African descent, the fight will take on
mythic proportion, with Louis seen by many as fighting to
uphold democracy and the race. He succeeds convincingly,
ending the fight in 2:04 of the first round at Yankee Stadium.
1941 - Ed Bradley is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A CBS
correspondent covering the Vietnam conflict, Bradley will
become co-anchor of CBS' "60 inutes" and win six Emmy awards.
1947 - Octavia Butler is born in Pasadena, California. She will
become a science writer and winner of the Hugo Award for
excellence in science fiction writing in 1984.
1949 - Ezzard Charles defeats Jersey Joe Walcott to win the heavyweight
championship of the world.
1962 - Clyde 'The Glide' Drexler is born in Houston, Texas. He will
become a basketball star at the University of Houston and
will lead Houston's "Phi Slamma Jamma" team to the NCAA Final
Four two years in a row, capturing the NCAA title in 1983. He
will be drafted by the NBA Portland Trailblazers, where he
will play twelve seasons, and will lead them to the NBA FInals
twice. After being traded to the Houston Rockets, he will
join his teammate from the University of Houston, Hakeem
Olajuwon and help the Rockets win the NBA championship in 1995.
After retiring from the NBA, he will become the head coach at
his alma mater, the University of Houston.
1963 - "Fingertips - Pt 2" by Little Stevie Wonder is released. It
became Wonder's first number one single on August 10th. Stevie
Wonder will have 46 hits on the pop and Rhythm & Blues music
charts between 1963 and 1987. Eight of those hits will make
it to number one.
1991 - "Kaleidoscope", an exhibit of the work of over 30 African
American photographers, opens at the Anacostia Museum in
Washington, DC. Among those exhibited are masters Addison
Scurlock and Robert Scurlock as well as contemporary
photographers Matthew Lewis, Sam Yette, Sharon Farmer, and
Brian Jones.
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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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