*	    Today in Black History - June 11          *

1799 - Richard Allen, the first African American bishop in
	the United States, is ordained a deacon of the 
	Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia, 
	Pennsylvania by Bishop Francis Asbury.

1915 - Mifflin Wistar Gibbs, the first African American in
	the United States to be named a judge, joins the 
	ancestors in Little Rock, Arkansas at the age of 87.

1920 - Hazel Dorothy Scott is born in Port-of-Spain, 
	Trinidad and raised in New York City from the age of 
	four.  A child prodigy, she will enroll at New York 
	City's Juilliard School of Music and star in 
	nightclubs, Broadway shows, and films.  A fixture in
	jazz society uptown and downtown in New York, most
	notably for her jazz improvisations on familiar 
	classical works, she will be credited with putting 
	the "swing in European classical music."  She will be
	the first African American woman to have her own 
	television show, "The Hazel Scott Show". The show will
	be short-lived because she will publicly oppose 
	McCarthyism and racial segregation, and the show will be
	cancelled in 1950 when she is accused of being a 
	Communist sympathizer. She will be married to Adam 
	Clayton Powell, Jr. from 1945 to 1956, with whom she will
	have one child before their divorce. She will join the
	ancestors after succumbing to cancer at the age of 61 on 
	October 2, 1981 in New York City.


1930 - Charles Rangel is born in New York City.  He will defeat 
	Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. for the latter's Congressional 
	seat in the 16th District and serve on the House Judiciary
	Committee hearings on the impeachment of President Richard
	M. Nixon.  He will also chair the Congressional Black 
	Caucus and be a strong advocate in the war on drugs and 
	drug crime as chairman of the House Select Committee on 
	Narcotics Abuse and Control.

1937 - Amalya L. Kearse is born in Vaux Hall, New Jersey.  She 
	will become the first African American woman judge on the 
	U.S. Court of Appeals, Second District of New York.  She 
	will earn her undergraduate degree at Wellesley College 
	and her law degree at University of Michigan Law School.
	She will be active in legal circles, the National Urban 
	League, and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.

1937 - Johnny Brown is born in St. Petersburg, Florida.  He will
	become a comedian and will be known for his roles on "Good
	Times," and "The Jeffersons," "Family Matters," and 
	"Martin."

1951 - Mozambique becomes an oversea province of Portugal.

1963 - Vivian Malone and James Hood, accompanied by U.S. Deputy 
	Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach, attempt to register at
	the University of Alabama.  They are met by Governor George 
	Wallace, who bodily blocks their entrance to a campus 
	building.  When National Guardsmen return later in the day 
	with Malone and Hood to enter the building, Wallace steps 
	aside.

1964 - In South Africa, Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life 
	imprisonment for allegedly attempting to sabotage the white 
	South African government.

1967 - A race riot occurs in Tampa, Florida.  The Florida National 
	Guard is mobilized to suppress the violence.

1972 - Hank Aaron, of the Atlanta Braves, ties Gil Hodges of the 
	Dodgers for the National League record for the most grand-
	slam home runs in a career, with 14.  The Braves will beat 
	the Philadelphia Phillies 15-3. 

1978 - Joseph Freeman Jr. becomes the first African American 
	priest in the Church Of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
	(Mormons).

1982 - Larry Holmes defeats Gerry Cooney to retain the WBC 
	heavyweight crown.

2003 - William Marshall, actor, joins the ancestors at the age of
	78 after succumbing to complications from Alzheimer's 
	disease. His roles ranged from Othello and Frederick 
	Douglas to a vampire in the 1972 movie "Blacula."

2006 - Dr. James Cameron, who survived an attempted lynching by a 
	white mob in 1930 and went on to found America's Black 
	Holocaust Museum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, joins the 
	ancestors at the age of 92.

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