*                Today in Black History - June 17              *

1775 - Former slave Peter Salem shoots and kills British Commander
        Major John Pitcairn, becoming the hero of the Battle of
        Bunker Hill.  Salem, along with Seasor, Pharoah,  Salem
        Poor, Barzaillai Lew, and Cuff Whittmore, fights in the
        battles of Bunker Hill and Breed's Hill.  Pitcairn was the
        major who ordered British soldiers to fire on the Minutemen
        at Lexington.

1822 - In New York City, the first elders of the newly founded
        African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Zion Church are ordained.

1871 - James Weldon Johnson is born in Jacksonville, Florida.  He
        will become a writer ("Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man"),
        poet, first African American admitted to the Florida bar,
        diplomat, executive secretary of the NAACP, and professor.
        He also will write the words and his brother J. Rosamond
        Johnson will write the music to "Lift Every Voice And Sing",
        referred to as the "Negro National Anthem."

1897 - William Frank Powell, a New Jersey educator, is named
        minister to Haiti.

1957 - Tuskegee boycott begins.  African Americans boycott city
        stores in protest against act of state legislature which
        deprives them of municipal votes by placing their homes
        outside city limits.

1966 - Stokely Carmichael calls for the Black Power Movement at a
        Greenwood, Mississippi rally.

1967 - Six days of rioting end in Newark, New Jersey, in the worst
        urban violence since the Watts riots of 1965.

1969 - Jazz musician, Charles Mingus, comes out of a two-year, self-
        imposed retirement to make a concert appearance at the Village
        Vanguard in New York City.

1972 - Frank Wills, a Washington, DC security guard, foils break-in
        at offices of the Democratic National Committee.  The offices
        at the Watergate complex, is targeted for the placement of
        surveillance equipment.  This will be the first event of the
        Watergate conspiracy.  Mr. Wills will be rewarded for his
        actions by losing his job and becoming unable to get another
        security job in the Washington area.

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        The source for these facts are "Encyclopedia Britannica,
        "InfoBeat," "I, Too, Sing America - The African American
        Book of Days," "Before the Mayflower", "Black Firsts" and
        independent research by the Information Man.
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