*		    Today in Black History - June 14              *

1921 - Georgianna R. Simpson becomes the first African American
	woman to receive a Ph.D. when she is awarded the degree, 
	in German, by the University of Chicago.

1931 - Margaret Bradley is born in Chicago, Illinois.  She will
	become a popular and enduring television personality known
	as Marla Gibbs, notable for her roles in the 'Jeffersons' 
	and '227'.

1941 - John Edgar Wideman is born in Washington, DC.  He is will
	become a Rhodes scholar and writer of such fictional works 
	as 'Hurry Home', 'Damballah', and 'Philadelphia Fire'. He 
	will be the second African American to win a Rhodes 
	scholarship. He will become the only writer to be awarded 
	the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction twice-- once in 1984 for
	his novel "Sent for You Yesterday" and again in 1990 for 
	"Philadelphia Fire." In 1990, he will also receive the 
	American Book Award for Fiction. He will be awarded the 
	Lannan Literary Fellowship for Fiction in 1991 and the 
	MacArthur Award in 1993. Other honors will include the St. 
	Botolph Literary Award (1993), the DuSable Museum Prize for
	Nonfiction for Brothers and Keepers (1985), the Longwood 
	College Medal for Literary Excellence, and the National 
	Magazine Editors' Prize for Short Fiction (1987). In 1996, 
	he will edit the annual anthology "The Best American Short
	Stories" (Houghton Mifflin).

1970 - Cheryl Adrienne Brown, Miss Iowa, becomes the first 
	African American to compete in the Miss America beauty 
	pageant.

1971 - The Justice Department files suit against the St. Louis 
	suburb of Black Jack, charging the community with illegally
	using municipal procedures to block an integrated housing 
	development.

1989 - Congressman William Gray, chairman of the House Democratic
	Caucus, is elected Democratic Whip of the House of 
	Representatives, the highest ranking leadership position 
	ever held by an African American in Congress.

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