* 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 - Samuel 'Sam' Jones II is born in Laurinburg, North
Carolina. 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 enshrined into the Basketball
Hall of fame in 1984. He will be named as one of the 50
greatest players in NBA history in 1996.
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.
1996 - A jury orders the city of Philadelphia to pay $1.5 million
in damages for the bombing of MOVE headquarters in 1985
that killed 11 people.
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