*                   Today in Black History - June 26                    *


1893 - William Lee Conley "Big Bill" Broonzy, blues singer, is born in 
        Scott, Mississippi.

1894 - The American Railway Union, led by Eugene Debs, calls a general 
        strike in sympathy with Pullman workers.

1934 - W.E.B. Du Bois resigns from the NAACP over the association's 
        policies and strategies.  Du Bois had been editor of the 
        association's "Crisis" magazine and director of publicity and 
        research.  The resignation brings control of the magazine under 
        the leadership of chief executive Walter White and its new 
        editor and NAACP assistant secretary, Roy Wilkins.

1938 - James Weldon Johnson, joins the ancestors after succumbing to 
        injuries received in an automobile accident near his summer home 
        in Wiscosset, Maine.

1940 - Billy Davis Jr., singer with the 5th Dimension, is born in St. Louis,
        Missouri. 

1950 - The American Medical Association seats the first African American 
        delegates at its convention.

1952 - The African National Congress begins its Defiance of Unjust Laws 
        campaign in South Africa.

1956 - Jazz trumpeter Clifford Brown joins the ancestors after being killed
        in an auto accident on the Pennsylvania Turnpike.  Founder of the 
        Brown-Roach Quintet with Max Roach two years earlier, Brown had 
        built a reputation as one of the finest jazz trumpeters of his day 
        as a major proponent of hard bop.

1959 - Prince Edward County, Virginia, abandons (closes) the public school
        system in an attempt to prevent school desegregation.

1959 - Floyd Paterson loses the Heavyweight Boxing Championship to Ingemar 
        Johansson of Sweden. 

1966 - The 220-mile voter registration march from Memphis, Tennessee to 
        Jackson, Mississippi ends with a rally of some thirty thousand at
        the Mississippi state capitol.

1970 - Frank Robinson hits 2 grand slams as Baltimore Orioles beat the 
        Washington Senators 12-2. 

1960 - Madagascar becomes independent from France.

1978 - "Girl," a single-sentence two page short story of a mother's preachy
        advice to her daughter, appears in the "New Yorker" magazine.  
        Written by Jamaica Kincaid, the story will make her a literary 
        celebrity and will be followed by short story collections and the 
        novels "Annie John" and "Lucy".

1979 - Muhammad Ali announces that he was retiring as world heavyweight
        boxing champion. The 37-year-old fighter said, "Everything gets old,

        and you can't go on like years ago." The "Float like a butterfly, 
        sting like a bee" act was no more. 

1990 - African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela addresses the U.S. 
        Congress, asking for "material resources" to hasten the end of
white-
        led rule in South Africa.

1995 - During a state visit to Ethiopia, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak 
        escapes an attempt on his life.

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