*		    Today in Black History - June 9               *

1877 - Meta Vaux Warwick (later Fuller) is born in Philadelphia, 
	Pennsylvania.  She will become a sculptor who will train 
	at the Pennsylvania Museum and School for Industrial Arts 
	and travel to Paris to study with Auguste Rodin.  Her 
	sculptures will be exhibited at the salon in Paris as well
	as extensively in the U.S. for 60 years.  Her most famous 
	works will include "Ethiopia Awakening," "Mary Turner (A 
	Silent Protest Against Mob Violence)," and "The Talking 
	Skull."

1934 - Jackie Wilson, entertainer who will be known as "Mr. 
	Excitement," is born in Detroit, Michigan.  

1948 - Oliver W. Hill becomes the first African American to be 
	elected to the Richmond, Virginia City Council.  

1963 - Fannie Lou Hamer and five other voter registration 
	workers were arrested in Winona, Mississippi on their way 
	home from a workshop in Charleston, SC.  They were held in
	the Winona jail for four days, during which they were 
	severely beaten with nightsticks and fists by policemen, 
	and with leather straps by prison trustees under the 
	direction of police officers.

1978 - Larry Holmes wins the WBC heavyweight title by defeating
	Ken Norton in Las Vegas, Nevada.

1980 - Comedian Richard Pryor suffers almost fatal burns at his
	San Fernando Valley, California home, when a mixture of 
	"free-base" cocaine explodes. 

1983 - Scott Joplin, noted jazz musician and composer of ragtime
	music, is the sixth African-American depicted in the U.S. 
	Postal Service's Black Heritage USA commemorative series 
	of postage stamps.

1998 - Three white men are charged in Jasper, Texas, with the 
	brutal dragging death of James Byrd Jr., an African 
	American.

1998 - Artist Lois Mailou Jones joins the ancestors in 
	Washington, DC.

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