* 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.
1926 - Donald Newcombe is born in Madison, New Jersey. He will become
a professional baseball pitcher in Negro league and Major
League Baseball and will play for the Newark Eagles (1944-45),
Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers (1949–51 and 1954–58), Cincinnati
Reds (1958–60), and Cleveland Indians (1960). He will be the
first pitcher to win the Rookie of the Year, Most Valuable
Player, and Cy Young Awards during his career. This distinction
will not be achieved again until 2011, when Detroit Tigers
pitcher Justin Verlander accomplishes the feat. In 1949, he
will become the first Black pitcher to start a World Series
game. In 1951, he will be the first Black pitcher to win twenty
games in one season. In 1956, the inaugural year of the Cy
Young Award, he will become the first pitcher to win the
National League Most Valuable Player and the Cy Young award in
the same season. An excellent hitter among pitchers, he will
compile a career batting average of .271 with 15 home runs and
will be used as a pinch hitter, a rarity for pitchers. He will
join the ancestors on February 19, 2019.
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, D.C. 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.
1959 - William Henry Marcus Miller Jr. is born in Brooklyn, New York.
He will become a jazz composer, producer and multi-
instrumentalist, best known as a bass guitarist using the name
Marcus Miller. He will work with trumpeter Miles Davis, pianist
Herbie Hancock, singer Luther Vandross, and saxophonist David
Sanborn, among others. He will win numerous Grammy Awards as a
producer for Miles Davis, Luther Vandross, David Sanborn, Bob
James, Chaka Khan and Wayne Shorter. He will win a Grammy Award
for Best Rhythm & Blues Song in 1992, for Luther Vandross' "Power
of Love" and in 2001, he will win for Best Contemporary Jazz
Album for his seventh solo instrumental album, M². In 2012, he
will be appointed an UNESCO Artist for Peace, supporting and
promoting the UNESCO Slave Route Project. His 2015 album,
Afrodeezia, will earn a Grammy Award nomination in 2016 for Best
Contemporary Instrumental Album.
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.
1993 - Samuel Benjamin Watkins, IV is born in Fort Myers, Florida. He
will become a professional football wide receiver for the Kansas
City Chiefs of the National Football League (NFL). He will play
college football at Clemson and be drafted by the Buffalo Bills
fourth overall in the 2014 NFL Draft. He will also play for the
Los Angeles Rams. On March 15, 2018, he will sign a three-year,
$48 million contract with the Kansas City Chiefs. In the 2018
season opener, he will record three receptions for 21 yards in
his Chiefs debut against the Los Angeles Chargers. He will record
six receptions for 100 yards in the following game against the
Pittsburgh Steelers. In Week 8, against the Denver Broncos, he
will have eight receptions for 107 yards and two touchdowns. He
will finish the 2018 season with 40 receptions for 519 receiving
yards and three receiving touchdowns. In the Divisional Round
victory over the Indianapolis Colts, he will have six receptions
for 62 yards. In the AFC Championship overtime loss to the New
England Patriots, he will have four receptions for 114 yards.
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