*                   Today in Black History - June 24                   *

1844 - Boston African Americans hold the first of a series of meetings
        protesting Jim Crow schools.

1884 - John Lynch is the first African American to preside over a
        major political party convention when he is elected temporary
        Chairman of the Republican National Convention.

1885 - Samuel David Ferguson is consecrated bishop of the Protestant
        Episcopal Church and named bishop of Liberia.  He is the first
        African American with full membership in the House of Bishops.

1896 - Booker T. Washington is the first African American to receive
        an honorary Master of Arts degree from Harvard University.

1898 - United States troops, including the African American Tenth
        Cavalry, drive Spanish forces from their entrenched positions
        at La Guasimas, Cuba.

1933 - Dramatic soprano Matilda Sissieretta Jones joins the ancestors
        after succumbing to cancer in Providence, Rhode Island.  Called
        the "the first Negro prima donna," Jones toured with the
        Tennessee Jubilee Singers and performed at Carnegie Hall,
        Madison Square Garden and at the White House in 1892.  She will
        be dubbed "Black Patti," a name she reportedly disliked for its
        allusion to white contemporary, Adelina Patti.

1933 - Sam Jones is born. He will become a professional basketball
        player with the Boston Celtics after graduating from North
        Carolina Central College. He will be a five time NBA All Star,
        and will be inducted into the Basketball Hall of fame in 1983.

1936 - Mary McLeod Bethune, founder-president of Bethune-Cookman
        College in Daytona, Beach, Florida, is named director of
        Negro Affairs of the National Youth Administration.  She is
        the first African American woman to receive a major appointment
        from the federal government.  The educator will hold the post
        until January 1, 1944.

1943 - Georg Stanford Brown is born in Havana, Cuba.  He will become an
        actor and director.   He will star in the TV series, "The Rookies,"
        and the mini-series "Roots."  He will direct "The Jesse Owens Story,"
        "In Defense of Kids," "Ava's Magical Adventure" and many others.

1949 - "Billboard Magazine" replaces the term 'Race Record' on its record
        charts with 'Rhythm & Blues'.

1968 - Joe Frazier TKOs Manda Ramos for the world heavyweight boxing
        title.

1968 - Resurrection City is Washington, DC is closed.  More than one
        hundred residents are arrested when they refuse to leave the
        site.  Other residents, including Ralph Abernathy, were
        arrested during demonstration at the U.S. Capitol.  National
        Guard troops were mobilized later in the day to stop the
        disturbances.

1972 - The rules committee of the Democratic National Convention approves
        the nomination of Yvonne Brathwaite Burke as co-chairperson of the
        convention.  She becomes the first African American woman to serve in
        that position in any major political party in the United States.

1974 - Boston's National Center for Afro-American Artists becomes the first
        African American cultural center to be awarded a Ford Foundation
        grant.

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