*		    Today in Black History - June 17        *

1775 - Former slave Peter Salem shoots and kills British
	Commander Major John Pitcairn, becoming the hero of 
	the Battle of Bunker Hill. Salem, along with Seasor,
	Pharoah, Salem Poor, Barzaillai Lew, and Cuff 
	Whittmore, fights in the battles of Bunker Hill and 
	Breed's Hill. Pitcairn was the major who ordered 
	British soldiers to fire on the Minutemen at 
	Lexington.

1822 - In New York City, the first elders of the newly 
	founded African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Zion Church
	are ordained.

1871 - James William Johnson is born in Jacksonville, Florida.  
	He will become a writer ("Autobiography of an Ex-Colored 
	Man"), poet, first African American admitted to the 
	Florida bar, diplomat, executive secretary of the NAACP, 
	and professor. He will change his middle name to Weldon 
	in 1913. He also will write the words and his brother 
	J. Rosamond Johnson will write the music to "Lift Every 
	Voice And Sing", referred to as the "Negro National 
	Anthem." He will join the ancestors on June 26, 1938 near 
	his summer home in Wiscasset, Maine, when the car in which 
	he will be driving, is struck by a train. 

1897 - William Frank Powell, a New Jersey educator, is 
	named minister to Haiti.

1957 - A major boycott begins in Tuskegee, Alabama. African
	Americans boycott city stores in protest against an 
	act of the state legislature which deprives them of 
	municipal votes by placing their homes outside city 
	limits.

1966 - Stokely Carmichael calls for the Black Power Movement
	at a Greenwood, Mississippi rally.

1967 - Six days of racially motivated disturbances end in 
	Newark, New Jersey, in the worst urban violence since
	the Watts Rebellion of 1965.

1969 - Jazz musician, Charles Mingus, comes out of a two-year,
	self-imposed retirement to make a concert appearance at
	the Village Vanguard in New York City.

1972 - Frank Wills, a Washington, DC security guard, foils the
	break-in at offices of the Democratic National Committee.
	The offices at the Watergate complex, are targeted for 
	the placement of surveillance equipment. This will be the
	first event of the Watergate conspiracy.  Mr. Wills will
	be rewarded for his actions by losing his job and 
	becoming unable to get another security job in the 
	Washington area.

1990 - South African Black nationalist Nelson Mandela and his 
	wife, Winnie, arrive in Ottawa, Canada, en route to an 
	11-day tour of the United States. 

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