* 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. He
will graduate from Meharry Medical College in 1891. He will
found the first African American medical journal, the "Medical
and Surgical Observer," and will be a co-founder of the
National Association of Colored Physicians, Dentists and
Pharmacists in September, 1895. Beginning in 1903 the group
will begin meeting annually and rename the organization, the
National Medical Association. In 1900, he will found the
University of West Tennessee, with departments of medicine,
law, dentistry, pharmacy, and nursing. In 1907, the school
will move to Memphis. The Jane Terrell Baptist Hospital will
provide clinical training. When the school closes in 1924, it
will have issued 216 medical degrees. He will join the
ancestors on Deccember 29, 1956.
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 on January 1, 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 Josephine 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. She will become a French citizen in 1937.
A World War II Red Cross volunteer, she 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 on April 12, 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.
1930 - Dakota Staton is born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, She will
study music at the Filion School of Music in Pittsburgh. Later
she will perform regularly in the Hill District, a jazz
hotspot, as a vocalist with the Joe Wespray Orchestra, a
popular Pittsburgh orchestra. She will spend several years in
the nightclub circuit in such cities as Detroit, Indianapolis,
Cleveland and St. Louis. While in New York, she will be noticed
singing at a Harlem nightclub called the Baby Grand by Dave
Cavanaugh, a producer for Capitol Records. She will be signed
and will release several singles, her success leading her to
win Down Beat magazine's "Most Promising New Comer" award in
1955. In 1958, she will wed Talib Ahmad Dawud, a Black Antiguan
Ahmadi Muslim trumpeter and noted critic of Elijah Muhammad.
She will release several critically acclaimed albums in the
late 1950s and early 1960s, including: The Late, Late Show
(1957), whose title track will be her biggest hit, "In the
Night" (1957), a collaboration with pianist George Shearing,
"Dynamic!" (1958) and "Dakota at Storyville" (1961), a live
album recorded at the Storyville jazz club in Boston. She will
move to England in the mid-1960s. She will continued to record
semi-regularly, her recordings taking an increasingly strong
gospel and blues influence. She will join the ancestors on
April 10, 2007.
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 - Rene' A. Perry, a.k.a. 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."
2009 - Cora Walton "KoKo" Taylor joins the ancestors at the age of 80,
after succumbing to complications from surgery for
gastrointestinal bleeding. She had been known as the "Queen
of the Blues," over the course of her almost 50-year career.
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