* Today in Black History - June 11 *
1799 - Richard Allen, the first African American bishop in
the United States, is ordained a deacon of the
Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania by Bishop Francis Asbury.
1915 - Mifflin Wistar Gibbs, the first African American in
the United States to be named a judge, joins the
ancestors in Little Rock, Arkansas at the age of 87.
1920 - Hazel Dorothy Scott is born in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad
and raised in New York City from the age of four. A
child prodigy, she will enroll at New York City's
Juilliard School of Music and star in nightclubs,
Broadway shows, and films. A fixture in jazz society
uptown and downtown in New York, most notably for her
jazz improvisations on familiar classical works, she
will be credited with putting the "swing in European
classical music." She will be the first African American
woman to have her own television show, "The Hazel Scott
Show". The show will be short-lived because she will
publicly oppose McCarthyism and racial segregation, and
the show will be cancelled in 1950 when she is accused
of being a Communist sympathizer. She will be married to
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. from 1945 to 1956, with whom she
will have one child before their divorce. She will join
the ancestors after succumbing to cancer at the age of 61
on October 2, 1981 in New York City.
1930 - Charles Rangel is born in New York City. He will defeat
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. for the latter's Congressional
seat in the 16th District and serve on the House Judiciary
Committee hearings on the impeachment of President Richard
M. Nixon. He will also chair the Congressional Black
Caucus and be a strong advocate in the war on drugs and
drug crime as chairman of the House Select Committee on
Narcotics Abuse and Control.
1937 - Amalya Lyle Kearse is born in Vaux Hall, New Jersey. She
will become the first African American woman judge on the
U.S. Court of Appeals, Second District of New York. She
will earn her undergraduate degree at Wellesley College
and her law degree at University of Michigan Law School.
She will be active in legal circles, the National Urban
League, and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.
1937 - Johnny Brown is born in St. Petersburg, Florida. He will
become a comedian and will be known for his roles on "Good
Times," and "The Jeffersons," "Family Matters," and
"Martin." He will be mostly remembered for his chubby
physique, wide ingratiating smile, mobile facial expressions,
and easy pleasant joking style. HeBwill be most famous,
however, for his role as building superintendent "Nathan
Bookman" on the 1970s CBS sitcom, "Good Times." Bookman was
often the brunt of fat jokes via the show's main character
"J. J. Evans" (Jimmie Walker). He will portray Bookman until
the series is cancelled in 1979.
1951 - Mozambique becomes an oversea province of Portugal.
1963 - Vivian Malone and James Hood, accompanied by U.S. Deputy
Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach, attempt to register at
the University of Alabama. They are met by Governor George
Wallace, who bodily blocks their entrance to a campus
building. When National Guardsmen return later in the day
with Malone and Hood to enter the building, Wallace steps
aside.
1964 - In South Africa, Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life
imprisonment for allegedly attempting to sabotage the white
South African government.
1967 - A race riot occurs in Tampa, Florida. The Florida National
Guard is mobilized to suppress the violence.
1972 - Hank Aaron, of the Atlanta Braves, ties Gil Hodges of the
Dodgers for the National League record for the most grand-
slam home runs in a career, with 14. The Braves will beat
the Philadelphia Phillies 15-3.
1978 - Joseph Freeman Jr. becomes the first African American
priest in the Church Of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
(Mormons).
1982 - Larry Holmes defeats Gerry Cooney to retain the WBC
heavyweight crown.
1989 - Maya April Moore is born in Jefferson City, Missouri. She will
become a professional basketball player for the Minnesota
Lynx of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA).
Naming her their inaugural Performer of the Year in 2017,
Sports Illustrated will call Moore the greatest player in the
history of women's basketball. In high school, she will be
the National Gatorade Player of the Year, the Gatorade Female
Athlete of the Year, and a McDonald's All-American. She will
play forward for the UConn women's basketball team, and win
back to back national championships in 2009 and 2010. She will
be selected as the John Wooden Award winner in 2009 after
leading Connecticut to the undefeated national championship.
The following season, she will lead Connecticut to its second
straight national championship and continue its overall
undefeated streak at 78; in the 2010-11 season, she will lead
the Huskies in extending that streak to an NCAA both-gender
record (all divisions) of 90. That season, she will become the
first female basketball player to sign with Jordan Brand.
After the 2017 season, her win-loss record in the U.S. since
high school will be 497-78. She will be the first overall pick
in the 2011 WNBA Draft, and join a Minnesota Lynx team that
already features all-star caliber players in Seimone Augustus,
Rebekkah Brunson and Lindsay Whalen. Since 2011, she will
continue to excel, both with the Lynx and with overseas teams
in Europe and China. She will win four WNBA championships (2011,
2013, 2015, 2017), WNBA Most Valuable Player Award (2014), WNBA
Finals MVP Award (2013), three WNBA All-Star Game MVPs (2015,
2017, 2018), two Olympic gold medals, (2012, 2016), scoring
title (2014), and the WNBA Rookie of the Year Award (2011). She
will also be selected to four WNBA All-Star teams and three All-
WNBA teams. In 2012, she will win both the Spanish league title
and EuroLeague title playing for Ros Casares Valencia. From 2013
to 2015, she will also win the Chinese league title every year.
1989 - Brittany Bullock is born in Houston, Texas. She will become a
rapper and singer known as Just Brittany. She will sign with Cash
Money Records following the success of her 2009 single "Call Me
for That Good." Her mixtape "Queen of H Town," released in 2012,
will feature big name rappers like Slim Thug and Z-Ro. She will
collaborate with fellow Houston rapper Lil Keke on the song "H-Town
Streets."
1991 - Kayshon Davis is born in Harlem, New York. He will become a battle
rapper known as K Shine. He will be a freestyle rapper who excels
at battle rapping and competes in the New York battle rap scene. He
will release his debut mixtape "The Transition" in 2014. He will
develop his catch phrase "Zip Em Up" let the taunting over Twitter
leading up to a battle fuel him to annihilate those contestants on
stage. That's what he will become known for.
1997 - Jorja Alice Smith is born in Walsall, West Midlands, England. She will
become a Rhythm & Blues/Pop singer and songwriter. She will release
several singles since January 2016 and collaborate with other artists,
including Drake, Kendrick Lamar, Kali Uchis, and Stormzy. She will
release her debut extended play, "Project 11," in November 2016. In
2018, she will win the Brit Critics' Choice Award. Her debut studio
album, "Lost & Found," will be released in June, 2018 and peak at
number three on the UK Albums Chart. At the 2019 Brit Awards, she
will be named Best British Female Artist. She will also be nominated
for a Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 2019.
2003 - William Marshall, actor, joins the ancestors at the age of 78 after
succumbing to complications from Alzheimer's disease. His roles ranged
from Othello and Frederick Douglas to a vampire in the 1972 movie
"Blacula."
2006 - Dr. James Cameron, who survived an attempted lynching by a white mob in
1930 and went on to found America's Black Holocaust Museum in Milwaukee,
Wisconsin, joins the ancestors at the age of 92.
2014 - Ruby Dee joins the ancestors, at the age of 91, at her home in New
Rochelle, New York. She was an American actress, poet, playwright,
screenwriter, journalist and activist. She is perhaps best known for
co-starring in the film "A Raisin in the Sun" (1961) and the film
"American Gangster" (2007), for which she was nominated for an Academy
Award for Best Supporting Actress. She was the recipient of Grammy, Emmy,
Obie, Drama Desk, Screen Actors Guild Award, Screen Actors Guild Lifetime
Achievement Awards as well as the National Medal of Arts and the Kennedy
Center Honors. She was married to actor Ossie Davis until he joined the
ancestors in 2005.
2015 - Ornette Coleman joins the ancestors after succumbing to a cardiac arrest at
the age of 85 in New York City. He was an American jazz saxophonist,
violinist, trumpeter and composer. He was one of the major innovators of
the free jazz movement of the 1960s, a term he invented with the name of
an album. His timbre was easily recognized: his keening, crying sound
drew heavily on blues music. He was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 1994.
His album "Sound Grammar" received the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for music. His
transition ceremony will be a three-hour event with performances and speeches
by several of his collaborators and contemporaries.
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