*		    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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