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* Today in Black History - July 3 *
1848 - Slaves are freed in the Danish West Indies (now the U.S. Virgin
Islands).
1871 - Joseph H. Douglass, grandson of Frederick Douglass, is born in
Washington, DC. A student of the New England Conservatory of Music
in Boston, Douglass will become a noted violinist.
1915 - U.S. military forces occupy Haiti, and remain until 1934.
1917 - Three days of racial riots end in East St. Louis, Illinois. At least
40 and as many as 200 African Americans are killed and hundreds more
are wounded.
1928 - Charles Waddell Chestnutt, author of "The Conjure Woman" and other
works, is awarded the NAACP's Spingarn Medal for his "work as a
literary artist depicting the life and struggle of Americans of
Negro descent."
1940 - Fontella Bass, vocalist ("Rescue Me"), is born in St. Louis, Missouri.
1947 - The Cleveland Indians purchase the contract of Larry Doby, the first
African American to play in the American League.
1962 - Jackie Robinson, who broke the color line in professional baseball,
is the first African American inducted into the National Baseball
Hall of Fame and Museum, in Cooperstown, New York.
1966 - NAACP officially disassociates itself from the "Black Power" doctrine.
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