* Today in Black History - June 14 *
1921 - Georgianna R. Simpson becomes the first African American
woman to receive a Ph.D. when she is awarded the degree,
in German, by the University of Chicago.
1931 - Margaret Theresa Bradley is born in Chicago, Illinois. She
will become a popular and enduring television personality
known as Marla Gibbs. She will be an actress, comedian,
singer, writer and producer, whose career will span five
decades. She will be known for her role as Louise and George
Jefferson's maid, Florence Johnston, in the long-running CBS
sitcom, "The Jeffersons" (1975–85), for which she will
receive five nominations for Primetime Emmy Award for
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. She will
also star in the show's spin-off "Checking In" (1981), and for
her leading role as Mary Jenkins in the NBC sitcom, 227
(1985–90), which she will also co-produce and sing on the
theme song. She will win a total of seven NAACP Image Awards.
In later years, she will play supporting roles in films "The
Meteor Man" (1993), "Lost & Found" (1999), "The Visit" (2000),
"The Brothers" (2001), and "Madea's Witness Protection" (2012).
1941 - John Edgar Wideman is born in Washington, DC. He will become
the second African American to win a Rhodes Scholarship
(New College, Oxford, England), graduating in 1966. He will
also graduate from the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the
University of Iowa. He will become the author of such
fictional works as 'Hurry Home', 'Damballah', and
'Philadelphia Fire'. He will become the only writer to be
awarded the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction twice-- once in
1984 for his novel "Sent for You Yesterday" and again in 1990
for "Philadelphia Fire." In 1990, he will also receive the
American Book Award for Fiction. He will be awarded the
Lannan Literary Fellowship for Fiction in 1991 and the
MacArthur Award in 1993. Other honors will include the St.
Botolph Literary Award (1993), the DuSable Museum Prize for
Nonfiction for Brothers and Keepers (1985), the Longwood
College Medal for Literary Excellence, and the National
Magazine Editors' Prize for Short Fiction (1987). In 1996,
he will edit the annual anthology "The Best American Short
Stories" (Houghton Mifflin). His academic teaching positions
will include the University of Wyoming, University of
Pennsylvania - where he will found and chair the African
American Studies Department, and the University of
Massachusetts Amherst's MFA Program for Poets & Writers and as
a professor at Brown University.
1970 - Cheryl Adrienne Brown, Miss Iowa, becomes the first
African American to compete in the Miss America beauty
pageant.
1971 - The Justice Department files suit against the St. Louis
suburb of Black Jack, charging the community with illegally
using municipal procedures to block an integrated housing
development.
1989 - Congressman William Gray, chairman of the House Democratic
Caucus, is elected Democratic Whip of the House of
Representatives, the highest ranking leadership position
ever held by an African American in Congress.
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