*		Today in Black History - June 9                   *

1877 - Meta Vaux Warwick (later Fuller) is born in Philadelphia, 
	Pennsylvania.  She will become a sculptor who will train at 
	the Pennsylvania Museum and School for Industrial Arts and 
	travel to Paris to study with Auguste Rodin.  Her sculptures 
	will be exhibited at the salon in Paris as well as 
	extensively in the U.S. for 60 years.  Her most famous works 
	will include "Ethiopia Awakening," "Mary Turner (A Silent 
	Protest Against Mob Violence)," and "The Talking Skull."

1934 - Jackie Wilson, entertainer who will be known as "Mr. 
	Excitement," is born in Detroit, Michigan.  

1948 - Oliver W. Hill becomes the first African American to be 
	elected to the Richmond, Virginia City Council.  

1963 - Fannie Lou Hamer and five other voter registration  workers
	were arrested in Winona, Mississippi on their way home from 
	a workshop in Charleston, SC.  They were held in the Winona 
	jail for four days, during which they were severely beaten 
	with nightsticks and fists by policemen, and with leather 
	straps by prison trustees under the direction of police 
	officers.

1978 - Larry Holmes wins the WBC heavyweight title by defeating Ken 
	Norton in Las Vegas, Nevada.

1980 - Comedian Richard Pryor suffers almost fatal burns at his San
	Fernando Valley, California home, when a mixture of "free-
	base" cocaine explodes. 

1983 - Scott Joplin, noted jazz musician and composer of ragtime 
	music, is the sixth African-American depicted in the U.S. 
	Postal Service's Black Heritage USA commemorative series of 
	postage stamps.

1998 - Three white men are charged in Jasper, Texas, with the brutal 
	dragging death of James Byrd Jr., an African American.

1998 - Artist Lois Mailou Jones joins the ancestors in Washington, 
	DC.

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