*                    Today in Black History - June 3           *

1833 - The fourth national Black convention meets in Philadelphia,
	Pennsylvania with sixty-two delegates from eight states.  
	Abraham D. Shadd of Pennsylvania is elected president.

1854 - Two thousand United States troops escort celebrated fugitive
	slave, Anthony Burns through the streets of Boston.

1871 - Miles Vandehurst Lynk is born near Brownsville, Tennessee.  
	A physician at 19, he founds the first African American 
	medical journal, the "Medical and Surgical Observer," and will
	be one of the organizers of what will later become the 
	National Medical Association.

1887 - Roland Hayes is born in Curryville, Tennessee.  A noted 
	concert artist, Hayes will be the first African American to 
	give a concert in Boston's Symphony Hall.  His career will take
	him throughout the U.S. and to London for a command performance
	before King George V. He will be awarded the Spingarn Medal in 
	1924 for his musical accomplishments. He will join the ancestors
	in 1977.

1904 - Charles R. Drew, creator of the plasma method of blood 
	preservation, is born in Washington, DC.  He will receive the 
	NAACP's Spingarn Medal for his contributions in 1944 and, in 
	1981, be posthumously honored by the U.S. Postal Service with a
	commemorative stamp. He will join the ancestors on April 1, 1950.

1906 - Freda McDonald is born in St. Louis, Missouri.  She will become 
	a singer and entertainer known as Josephine Baker.  A chorus girl
	in the 1923 musical "Shuffle Along," she will travel to Paris, 
	introduce "le jazz hot" in the show "La Revue Negre," and will 
	cause a sensation with the Folies Bergeres when she performs 
	topless on a mirror, wearing a rubber banana skirt.  A World War 
	II Red Cross volunteer, Baker will perform for the Allied troops 
	and in the 1950's she will tour the U.S., fighting for 
	desegregated theaters and restaurants. She will join the ancestors
	in 1975.
	
1919 - Liberty Life Insurance Company in Chicago, Illinois, the first
	old-line legal reserve company organized by African Americans in
	the North, is incorporated. 

1942 - Curtis Mayfield is born in Chattanooga, Tennessee and will be 
	raised in Chicago, Illinois. He will become a singer, songwriter, 
	and producer.  He will be a member of the group The Impressions.
	He will write many hits for the group, Jerry Butler and himself.
	He will start a successful solo career in 1970.  He will become
	paralyzed from the chest down in 1990 when a stage lighting tower
	falls on him.  After recuperating, he will still continue to 
	perform. He will join the ancestors on Sunday, December 26, 1999.

1946 - In its "Morgan vs. Commonwealth of Virginia" ruling, the U.S.
	Supreme Court bars segregation in interstate bus travel.

1949 - Wesley Anthony Brown becomes the first African American to 
	graduate from the U.S. Naval Academy.

1951 - Deniece Chandler is born in Gary, Indiana.  She will become a 
	singer and will be known as Deniece Williams.  She will get her 
	first break as a member of Stevie Wonder's backup group 
	Wonderlove during 1972-75. She will grow into a successful solo 
	career in both secular and gospel music.

1997 - Harvey Johnson, who defeats the incumbent mayor in the 
	Democratic Primary, is elected Jackson, Mississippi's first 
	African American mayor, defeating the Republican candidate by 
	more than two-to-one. Johnson, an urban planner and former state
	tax commissioner, was making his second run to head the city of 
	about 200,000.  He upset incumbent Kane Ditto to earn the right
	to face GOP businesswoman Charlotte Reeves in the general 
	election.

1997 - Bro. Mosi Hoj issues the email that will establish the beginning
	of the "Today in Black History" series that will eventually be
	known as the "Munirah Chronicle."

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