*                    Today in Black History - June 6                     *

1716 - The first slaves arrive in Louisiana.

1779 - Haitian explorer Jean Baptiste-Pointe Du Sable founds the first
        permanent settlement at the mouth of a river on the north bank,
        that will become Chicago, Illinois.

1831 - The second national Black convention meets in Philadelphia,
        Pennsylvania.  There are fifteen delegates from five states.

1869 - Dillard University is chartered in New Orleans, Louisiana.

1934 - Roy Innis is born in the U.S. Virgin Islands and will be raised in
        New York City.  He will become a civil rights activist and will
        join the Harlem chapter of CORE (Congress of Racial Equality) in
        1963.  He will work with the organization over the next 35 years
        in many capacities including chairman.

1935 - Jesse Owens is elected Captain of the 1936 track team at Ohio State
        University. He is the first African American to hold such position
        on any Ohio State Team.

1935 - Robert "Bobby" Mitchell is born in Hot Springs, Arkansas.  He will
        become a professional football player starting as an eighth round
        draft selection by the Cleveland Browns in 1958.  He will play in
        four Pro Bowls (one with Cleveland and three with Washington) over
        his 11-year playing career and is considered one of the NFL’s
        all-time great multi-purpose players.  When he is traded to the
        Washington franchise in 1962, he becomes the first African American
        to play for the team.  He will become an inductee to the Pro
        Football Hall of Fame in 1983.  He will be a prominent part of the
        Washington Redskins organization for over 41 years until he retires
        after the 2002-2003 season.

1936 - Levi Stubbs is born.  He will become a rhythm and blues singer and
        a member of the group, "The Aims." The group will start as a
        backup group for Levi's cousin, Jackie Wilson.  The group will
        change their name to "The Four Tops" in 1956, to avoid confusion
        with a band.  Berry Gordy will sign the group in 1963 and launch
        their first hit, "Baby, I Need Your Loving."  The group will stay
        together over forty years, longer than any other popular group, with
        the original personnel intact.

1939 - Marion Wright (later Edelman) is born in Bennettsville, South
        Carolina.  In addition to becoming the first African American
        woman admitted to the bar in Mississippi, she will direct the
        NAACP's Legal Defense and Education Fund in New York and
        Mississippi and will found the Children's Defense Fund in 1973.

1939 - Gary Anderson is born in Jacksonville, Florida.  He will be raised
        in Norfolk, Virginia where he will become a singer as a teenager,
        with a group called The Turks.  He will solo as Gary "U.S." Bonds
        in 1960 recording the hit "New Orleans."  His name will be inspired
        by a poster in a Norfolk shop urging Americans to "Carry U. S.
        Bonds."  In 1961 when Bonds records his version of a local group's
        song, "A Night with Daddy G.," it will be re-titled "Quarter to
        Three" and will be a huge hit.  He will record three additional hits
        in the next year.  After a twenty year decline in his career, he
        will make a comeback after his fan, Bruce Springsteen, begins to
        use "Quarter to Three" as his encore.

1944 - The 320th Negro Anti-Aircraft Barrage Balloon Battalion assists
        in the D-Day invasion in Normandy, France.

1947 - Harrison Branch is born in New York City.  A student at the San
        Francisco Art Institute and Yale University School of Art, he will
        become a professor of art and photographer whose works will be
        exhibited and collected in the U.S. and in Europe and will appear
        in the landmark photography book, "An Illustrated Bio-Bibliography
        of Black Photographers," 1940-1988, edited by Deborah Wills Ryan.

1966 - James Meredith is wounded by a white sniper, as he walked along U.S.
        Highway 51 near Hernando, Mississippi, on the second day of the
        Memphis, Tennessee to Jackson, Mississippi, voter registration
        march.  Meanwhile, Stokely Carmichael, using his newly adopted name
        of Kwame' Toure, launches the Black Power movement.  Toure will say
        that the use of the term is not anti-white, but a phrase to denote
        a political strategy.

1973 - Barry White is awarded a gold record for "I'm Gonna Love You Just a
        Little More Baby". It is his first hit and his first of five,
        number one, million sellers.  White will begin recording in 1960.
        He will form the group, Love Unlimited, in 1969 and marry one of
        the group's singers, Glodean James. He will also form the 40-piece
        Love Unlimited Orchestra which will have the number one hit, "Love's
        Theme."

1977 - Joseph Lawson Howze is installed as bishop of the Roman Catholic
        diocese of Biloxi, Mississippi.  He becomes the first African
        American to head a U.S. diocese in the Catholic Church in the
        twentieth century.

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