*		    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 1983 will be awarded Kennedy 
	Center honors. She will spend her later years residing
	in East St. Louis, Illinois. She will join the 
	ancestors on May 21, 2006.

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
	audience, 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 Minutes" and
	win at least six Emmy awards. He will join the ancestors
	on November 9, 2006 after succumbing to leukemia at the
	age of 65.

1947 - Octavia Butler is born in Pasadena, California.  She 
	will become a science fiction 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, 1983 and 1984.
	He will be drafted by the NBA Portland Trailblazers, 
	where he will play twelve seasons, and will lead them to 
	the NBA FInals twice. In 1992, he will be selected to the 
	U.S. Olympics basketball team, nicknamed "The Dream Team", 
	which will win the gold medal in Barcelona.  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. He will later 
	become the color commentator for the Houston Rockets. He 
	will be inducted into the Naismth Memorial Basketball Hall 
	of Fame on September 10, 2004, in his first year of 
	eligibility. He will be named one of basketball's fifty 
	greatest players by the NBA. 

1963 - "Fingertips - Pt 2" by Little Stevie Wonder is released. 
	It becomes 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. 

1989 - The government of Angola and the anti-Communist rebels of 
	the UNITA movement agree to a formal truce in their 
	14-year-old civil war.

1990 - African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela, speaking
	before the United Nations, states that a democratic, 
	nonracial South Africa is "within our grasp." 

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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