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* Today in Black History - June 14 *
1921 - Georgianna R. Simpson becomes the first African American woman to
receive a Ph.D. when she is awarded the degree, in German, by the
University of Chicago.
1931 - Margaret Bradley is born in Chicago, Illinois. She will become
a popular and enduring television personality known as Marla
Gibbs, notable for her roles in the 'Jeffersons' and '227'.
1941 - John Edgar Wideman is born in Washington, DC. He is will become
a Rhodes scholar and writer of such fictional works as 'Hurry
Home', 'Damballah', and 'Philadelphia Fire'.
1970 - Cheryl Adrienne Brown, Miss Iowa, becomes the first African
American to compete in the Miss America beauty pageant.
1971 - The Justice Department files suit against the St. Louis suburb of
Black Jack, charging the community with illegally using municipal
procedures to block an integrated housing development.
1989 - Congressman William Gray, chairman of the House Democratic Caucus,
is elected Democratic Whip of the House of Representatives, the
highest ranking leadership position ever held by an African
American in Congress.
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