*              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 of chief executive Walter
        White and its new editor and NAACP assistant secretary, Roy
        Wilkins.

1938 - James Weldon Johnson,  dies of injuries received in an
        automobile accident in 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 dies 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 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.

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        The source for these facts are "Encyclopedia Britannica,
        "InfoBeat," "I, Too, Sing America - The African American
        Book of Days," "Before the Mayflower", "Black Firsts" and
        independent research by the Information Man.
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