* Today in Black History - June 17 * 1775 - Former slave Peter Salem shoots and kills British Commander Major John Pitcairn, becoming the hero of the Battle of Bunker Hill. Salem, along with Seasor, Pharoah, Salem Poor, Barzaillai Lew, and Cuff Whittmore, fights in the battles of Bunker Hill and Breed's Hill. Pitcairn was the major who ordered British soldiers to fire on the Minutemen at Lexington. 1822 - In New York City, the first elders of the newly founded African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Zion Church are ordained. 1871 - James Weldon Johnson is born in Jacksonville, Florida. He will become a writer ("Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man"), poet, first African American admitted to the Florida bar, diplomat, executive secretary of the NAACP, and professor. He also will write the words and his brother J. Rosamond Johnson will write the music to "Lift Every Voice And Sing", referred to as the "Negro National Anthem." 1897 - William Frank Powell, a New Jersey educator, is named minister to Haiti. 1957 - A major boycott begins in Tuskegee, Alabama. African Americans boycott city stores in protest against an act of the state legislature which deprives them of municipal votes by placing their homes outside city limits. 1966 - Stokely Carmichael calls for the Black Power Movement at a Greenwood, Mississippi rally. 1967 - Six days of racially motivated disturbances end in Newark, New Jersey, in the worst urban violence since the Watts Rebellion of 1965. 1969 - Jazz musician, Charles Mingus, comes out of a two-year, self-imposed retirement to make a concert appearance at the Village Vanguard in New York City. 1972 - Frank Wills, a Washington, DC security guard, foils break-in at offices of the Democratic National Committee. The offices at the Watergate complex, is targeted for the placement of surveillance equipment. This will be the first event of the Watergate conspiracy. Mr. Wills will be rewarded for his actions by losing his job and becoming unable to get another security job in the Washington area. 1990 - South African Black nationalist Nelson Mandela and his wife, Winnie, arrive in Ottawa, Canada, en route to an 11-day tour of the United States. ______________________________________________________________ Munirah Chronicle is edited by Brother Mosi Hoj "The TRUTH shall make you free" E-mail: <[log in to unmask]> Archives: <http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/Munirah.html> _____________________________________________________________ To SUBSCRIBE send E-mail to: <[log in to unmask]> In the E-mail body place: Subscribe Munirah Your FULL Name ______________________________________________________________ Munirah(TM) is a trademark of Information Man. Copyright 2003, All Rights Reserved by the Information Man in association with CODE One Communications.