* Today in Black History - June 30 * 1881 - Henry Highland Garnet, former abolitionist leader and Presbyterian minister, is named Minister to Liberia. He will join the ancestors in Monrovia shortly after his arrival. 1906 - John Hope becomes the first African American president of Morehouse College. 1917 - Lena Horne is born in Brooklyn, New York. She will begin her career at 16 as a chorus girl at the Cotton Club in Harlem, appear in the movies "Cabin in the Sky" and "Stormy Weather" and have a successful Broadway career culminating in her one-woman show. Horne will also be a strong civil rights advocate, refusing to perform in clubs where African Americans are not admitted and marching during the civil rights movement in the 1960s. 1921 - Charles S. Gilpin becomes the first actor to receive the NAACP's Spingarn Medal for his portrayal of Emperor Jones in the Eugene O'Neill play of the same name. 1940 - John T. Scott is born in New Orleans, Louisiana. He will become a professor of art and a sculptor whose works will be exhibited widely in the U.S. and at the exhibit of "Art of Black America in Japan, Afro-American Modernism: 1937-1987." 1958 - Alabama courts fined the NAACP $ 100,000 for contempt, for refusing to divulge membership. The U.S. Supreme Court will reverse the decision. 1960 - Zaire proclaims its independence from Belgium. 1966 - Michael Gerard "Mike" Tyson, former heavyweight champion of the world and youngest (at age 19) to win that title (WBC in 1986), is born in Brooklyn, New York. 1967 - Maj. Robert H. Lawrence Jr. becomes the first African American astronaut. He will join the ancestors after being killed during a training flight accident on December 8, 1967. 1969 - Jacob Lawrence receives the NAACP's Spingarn Medal "in testimony to his eminence among American painters." 1974 - Alberta King, mother of the late Martin Luther King Jr., joins the ancestors after being assassinated during a church service in Atlanta, Georgia. The assailant, Marcus Chennault of Dayton, Ohio, is later convicted and sentenced to death. 1978 - Larry Doby becomes the manager of the Chicago White Sox baseball team. He will have a win-loss record of 37-50 and will be fired at the end of the season (October 19). 1980 - Coleman A. Young is awarded the Spingarn Medal for his "singular accomplishment as Mayor of the City of Detroit,"a position he had held since 1973. 2001 - Saxophonist Joe Henderson joins the ancestors in San Francisco. His improvisational style and compositions have influenced jazz musicians everywhere. He had been suffering from emphysema, and became ill at his home in San Francisco, but did not go to the hospital until the following day, where he died of heart failure. ______________________________________________________________ Munirah Chronicle is edited by Rene' A. Perry "The TRUTH shall make you free" E-mail: <[log in to unmask]> Archives: http://listserv.icors.org/archives/Munirah.html http://blackagenda.com/cybercolonies/index.htm _____________________________________________________________ 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 1997 - 2007, All Rights Reserved by the Information Man in association with The Black Agenda.