*      Today in Black History - July 15                *

1822 - The city of Philadelphia opens its public schools for African
        Americans.

1864 - General A. J. Smith, with fourteen thousand men, including a
        brigade of African American troops, defeats Nathan B. Forrest at
        Harrisburg, near Tupelo, Mississippi.

1869 - A.J. Hayne, an African-American captain of the Arkansas militia, is
        assassinated.

1929 - Francis Bebey is born in Cameroon.  He will become a self-taught
        master guitarist, composer, and sanza player.

1938 - Billie Lee Williams, baseball player (Rookie of the Year 1961), and
        Chicago Cubs outfielder, is born.

1945 - Gene Upshaw, ex-NFL offensive tackle (Oakland Raiders), and president
        of the NFL Players Association, is born.

1951 - Mary White Ovington, one of the founders of the NAACP and author of
        "The Walls Come Tumbling Down," a history of the NAACP, joins the
        ancestors.

1959 - Billie Holiday joins the ancestors in New York City.

1961 - Forest Whitaker, actor and director, ("The Crying Game,"
        "Bloodsport," "Platoon," "Phenomenon," "Waiting to Exhale" (Dir.)),
        is born.

1968 - Ellen Holly integrates daytime television when she appears on ABC's
        "One Life To Live" as Carla, an African American "passing" for
        white. The role is a marked departure for the New York City-born
        African American, whose first professional role was with Joseph
        Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival as the white Desdemona to
        William Marshall's Othello in 1958.  Holly had been a featured
        player in Papp's company and had played several Shakespearean
        roles, including Lady Macbeth opposite James Earl Jones in
        "Macbeth" and Princess Katherine opposite Robert Hooks in Henry V,
        before being signed to the soap opera.

1969 - Rod Carew ties the major league record with his 7th steal of home in
        a season.

1970 - James McGhee is sworn in as the first African American mayor of
        Dayton, Ohio.

1973 - Willie McCovey becomes 15th major league player to hit 400 Home
        Runs.

1980 - Benjamin Hooks addresses the GOP convention after a lobbying effort
        and threatened walkout by 121 African American delegates. Hooks
        speaks before the convention despite leading candidate Ronald
        Reagan's refusal to appear at the NAACP convention earlier in the
        month.

1980 - New violence erupts in the riot-torn Liberty City section of Miami,
        Florida.  Two months after riots that killed 18 and resulted in
        $ 100 million in property damage, the violence will leave 40
        injured and result in 40 arrests.

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