* Today in Black History - June 3 *
1833 - The fourth national Black convention meets in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania with sixty-two delegates from eight states.
Abraham D. Shadd of Pennsylvania is elected president.
1854 - Two thousand United States troops escort celebrated fugitive
slave, Anthony Burns through the streets of Boston.
1871 - Miles Vandehurst Lynk is born near Brownsville, Tennessee.
A physician at 19, he founds the first African American
medical journal, the "Medical and Surgical Observer," and will
be one of the organizers of what will later become the
National Medical Association.
1887 - Roland Hayes is born in Curryville, Tennessee. A noted
concert artist, Hayes will be the first African American to
give a concert in Boston's Symphony Hall. His career will take
him throughout the U.S. and to London for a command performance
before King George V. He will be awarded the Spingarn Medal in
1924 for his musical accomplishments. He will join the ancestors
in 1977.
1904 - Charles R. Drew, creator of the plasma method of blood
preservation, is born in Washington, DC. He will receive the
NAACP's Spingarn Medal for his contributions in 1944 and, in
1981, be posthumously honored by the U.S. Postal Service with a
commemorative stamp. He will join the ancestors on April 1, 1950.
1906 - Freda McDonald is born in St. Louis, Missouri. She will become
a singer and entertainer known as Josephine Baker. A chorus girl
in the 1923 musical "Shuffle Along," she will travel to Paris,
introduce "le jazz hot" in the show "La Revue Negre," and will
cause a sensation with the Folies Bergeres when she performs
topless on a mirror, wearing a rubber banana skirt. A World War
II Red Cross volunteer, Baker will perform for the Allied troops
and in the 1950's she will tour the U.S., fighting for
desegregated theaters and restaurants. She will join the ancestors
in 1975.
1919 - Liberty Life Insurance Company in Chicago, Illinois, the first
old-line legal reserve company organized by African Americans in
the North, is incorporated.
1942 - Curtis Mayfield is born in Chattanooga, Tennessee and will be
raised in Chicago, Illinois. He will become a singer, songwriter,
and producer. He will be a member of the group The Impressions.
He will write many hits for the group, Jerry Butler and himself.
He will start a successful solo career in 1970. He will become
paralyzed from the chest down in 1990 when a stage lighting tower
falls on him. After recuperating, he will still continue to
perform. He will join the ancestors on Sunday, December 26, 1999.
1946 - In its "Morgan vs. Commonwealth of Virginia" ruling, the U.S.
Supreme Court bars segregation in interstate bus travel.
1949 - Wesley Anthony Brown becomes the first African American to
graduate from the U.S. Naval Academy.
1951 - Deniece Chandler is born in Gary, Indiana. She will become a
singer and will be known as Deniece Williams. She will get her
first break as a member of Stevie Wonder's backup group
Wonderlove during 1972-75. She will grow into a successful solo
career in both secular and gospel music.
1997 - Harvey Johnson, who defeats the incumbent mayor in the
Democratic Primary, is elected Jackson, Mississippi's first
African American mayor, defeating the Republican candidate by
more than two-to-one. Johnson, an urban planner and former state
tax commissioner, was making his second run to head the city of
about 200,000. He upset incumbent Kane Ditto to earn the right
to face GOP businesswoman Charlotte Reeves in the general
election.
1997 - Bro. Mosi Hoj issues the email that will establish the beginning
of the "Today in Black History" series that will eventually be
known as the "Munirah Chronicle."
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