*                  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. He
	will graduate from Meharry Medical College in 1891. He will
	found the first African American medical journal, the "Medical 
	and Surgical Observer," and will be a co-founder of the 
	National Association of Colored Physicians, Dentists and 
	Pharmacists in September, 1895. Beginning in 1903 the group 
	will begin meeting annually and rename the organization, the 
	National Medical Association. In 1900, he will found the 
	University of West Tennessee, with departments of medicine, 
	law, dentistry, pharmacy, and nursing. In 1907, the school 
	will move to Memphis. The Jane Terrell Baptist Hospital will 
	provide clinical training. When the school closes in 1924, it 
	will have issued 216 medical degrees. He will join the 
	ancestors on Deccember 29, 1956.

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 on January 1, 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 Josephine 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.  She will become a French citizen in 1937.
	A World War II Red Cross volunteer, she 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 on April 12, 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. 

1930 - Dakota Staton is born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, She will
	study music at the Filion School of Music in Pittsburgh. Later 
	she will perform regularly in the Hill District, a jazz 
	hotspot, as a vocalist with the Joe Wespray Orchestra, a 
	popular Pittsburgh orchestra. She will spend several years in 
	the nightclub circuit in such cities as Detroit, Indianapolis, 
	Cleveland and St. Louis. While in New York, she will be noticed 
	singing at a Harlem nightclub called the Baby Grand by Dave 
	Cavanaugh, a producer for Capitol Records. She will be signed 
	and will release several singles, her success leading her to 
	win Down Beat magazine's "Most Promising New Comer" award in 
	1955. In 1958, she will wed Talib Ahmad Dawud, a Black Antiguan
	Ahmadi Muslim trumpeter and noted critic of Elijah Muhammad.
	She will release several critically acclaimed albums in the 
	late 1950s and early 1960s, including: The Late, Late Show 
	(1957), whose title track will be her biggest hit, "In the 
	Night" (1957), a collaboration with pianist George Shearing, 
	"Dynamic!" (1958) and "Dakota at Storyville" (1961), a live 
	album recorded at the Storyville jazz club in Boston. She will
	move to England in the mid-1960s. She will continued to record 
	semi-regularly, her recordings taking an increasingly strong 
	gospel and blues influence. She will join the ancestors on
	April 10, 2007.

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 - Rene' A. Perry, a.k.a. 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."

2009 - Cora Walton "KoKo" Taylor joins the ancestors at the age of 80,
	after succumbing to complications from surgery for 
	gastrointestinal bleeding. She had been known as the "Queen
	of the Blues," over the course of her almost 50-year career.

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