* Today in Black History - June 12 *
1826 - Sarah Parker Remond is born in Salem, Massachusetts. She will
become a major abolitionist. She will also be an African
American physician, lecturer and agent of the American
Anti-Slavery Society. She will deliver speeches throughout
the United States on the horrors of slavery. Because of her
eloquence, she will be chosen to travel to England to gather
support for the abolitionist cause in the United States and,
after the American Civil War starts, for support of the
Union Army and the Union blockade of the Confederacy. She
is the sister of orator Charles Lenox Remond. She will join
the ancestors on December 13, 1894.
1840 - The World's Anti-Slavery Convention convenes in London, England.
Among those in attendance will be African American Charles
Remond, who will refuse to be seated at the meeting when he
and the other delegates learn that women are being segregated
in the gallery.
1876 - A monument is dedicated to Richard Allen in Philadelphia's
Fairmount Park. It is the first known monument erected by
African Americans to honor one of their heroes.
1904 - William Hendrick Foster is born in Calvert, Texas. He will
become a star in the Negro Baseball League. He will play
for the Chicago American Giants from 1923-1937. A left-hander,
he will win 137 games, more than any other left-handed
pitcher. Throughout his career, he will regularly participate
in post-season play in the California Winter League and with
barnstorming squads of Negro Leagues all-stars. In exhibition
contests against major league stars, he will post a .600+ win
percentage. After his retirement from baseball, he will
pursue various coaching positions, ultimately landing the
post of head baseball coach and dean of men at his alma mater,
Alcorn College in Mississippi. He will join the ancestors on
September 16, 1978. He will be inducted into the Baseball
Hall Of Fame in 1996.
1935 - Ella Fitzgerald records her first record for Brunswick Records.
The songs on the record were "Love and Kisses" and "I'll Chase
the Blues Away". She is featured with Chick Webb and his band.
Ella is 17 years old at the time and will conduct the Webb
band for three years after he joins the ancestors in 1939.
1961 - The Hinds County, Mississippi Board of Supervisors announces
that more than one hundred "Freedom Riders" had been arrested.
1963 - Medgar Evers, field secretary for the Mississippi NAACP, joins
the ancestors after being assassinated in the driveway outside
his home in Jackson, Mississippi. The African American civil
rights leader is shot to death by white supremacist Byron De
La Beckwith. During World War II, Evers volunteered for the
U.S. Army and participated in the Normandy invasion. In 1952,
he joined the National Association for the Advancement of
Colored People (NAACP). As a field worker for the NAACP, he
traveled through his home state encouraging poor African
Americans to register to vote and recruiting them into the
civil rights movement. He was instrumental in getting witnesses
and evidence for the Emmitt Till murder case, which brought
national attention to the plight of African Americans in the
South. He will be widely mourned throughout the civil rights
movement and posthumously receives the NAACP's Spingarn Medal.
1963 - Civil rights group demonstrates at Harlem construction sites to
protest discrimination in the building trade unions.
1967 - The U.S. Supreme Court strikes down a Virginia miscegenation law
(marriage or cohabitation between whites and non-whites). This
decision establishes that no state law can prohibit interracial
marriages.
1967 - A racially motivated civil disturbance occurs in Cincinnati,
Ohio. Three hundred persons are arrested, and the National
Guard is mobilized.
1972 - The National Black MBA Association is incorporated. An
organization of over 2,000 minority holders of advanced business
degrees, the organization's mission is to assist the entry of
interested minorities into the business community.
1981 - Larry Holmes defends his heavyweight boxing title by earning a
third-round TKO (technical knockout) over Leon Spinks in Detroit,
Michigan.
1989 - The U.S. Supreme Court expands the abilities of white males to
challenge court-approved affirmative action plans, even years
after they take effect.
1995 - The Supreme Court deals a potentially crippling blow to federal
affirmative action programs, ruling Congress was limited by the
same strict standards as states in offering special help to
minorities.
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