*                   Today in Black History - June 5             *

1783 - Oliver Cromwell, an African American soldier who served in 
	the Revolutionary War, receives an honorable discharge 
	signed by George Washington.  Cromwell, who will claim to 
	have been with Washington when he crossed the Delaware and 
	in the battles of Yorktown, Princeton, and Monmouth, is 
	cited by Washington as having earned "the Badge of Merit 
	for six years' faithful service."

1872 - The Republican National Convention meets in Philadelphia,
	Pennsylvania.  The meeting marks the first significant 
	participation of African American delegates: Robert B. 
	Elliot (chair of the South Carolina delegation); Joseph 
	Rainey, and John R. Lynch of Mississippi, who each make 
	addresses to the convention.

1920 - Marion Motley is born in Leesburg, Georgia.  He will become 
	a NFL running back and all-time AAFC rusher for the 
	Cleveland Browns, ending his career with the Pittsburgh 
	Steelers.  He will enter the NFL in 1946, making him one 
	of only four African Americans to desegregate the NFL in 
	the modern era. One of the largest running backs of his 
	era, Motley will rush for 4,720 yards in his career and 
	average an astounding 5.7 yards per carry, the highest in 
	pro football history. He will also be selected to the first 
	Pro Bowl in 1951. He will be enshrined in the NFL Hall of 
	Fame in 1968. He will join the ancestors in Cleveland, Ohio 
	on June 27, 1999.

1940 - The American Negro Theatre is organized in Harlem by 
	Frederick O'Neal, Abram Hill, and members of the McClendon 
	Players. Among the plays it will produce is "Anna Lucasta", 
	which will be presented on Broadway in 1944 and feature 
	Canada Lee, Ossie Davis, and Ruby Dee.

1952 - Jersey Joe Walcott defeats Ezzard Charles for the
	heavyweight boxing title.

1956 - A three-judge federal court rules that racial segregation on 
	Montgomery city buses is unconstitutional, ending the
	Montgomery bus boycott.

1959 - U.S. Supreme Court undermines the legal foundations of 
	segregation in three landmark cases, Sweatt v. Painter, 
	McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents and Henderson v. United 
	States.

1969 - A race riot occurs in Hartford, Connecticut.

1973 - Doris A. Davis of Compton, California, becomes the first 
	African American female to govern a metropolitan city.

1973 - Cardiss R. Collins of Chicago, Illinois is elected to 
	Congress. She will succeed her late husband and spend over 
	twenty years in the U.S. House of Representatives.
        	
1983 - Yannick Noah becomes the first Frenchman to win the French 
	Open since World War II.

1988 - Clarence M. Pendleton, Jr. joins the ancestors at the age of 
	58. He was the first African American chairman of the 
	United States Civil Rights Commission (1981-88).  Following 
	President Ronald Reagan's desires, he led the commission 
	toward a "color-blind" approach to matters of civil rights.

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