*                    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 - A major boycott begins in Tuskegee, Alabama.  African Americans
        boycott city stores in protest against an act of the 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 racially motivated disturbances end in Newark, New
        Jersey, in the worst urban violence since the Watts Rebellion 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.

1990 - South African Black nationalist Nelson Mandela and his wife, Winnie,
        arrive in Ottawa, Canada, en route to an 11-day tour of the United
        States.

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