* Today in Black History - June 22 *
1772 - Slavery is outlawed in England.
1868 - Congress readmits the state of Arkansas on the
condition that it would never change its constitution
to disenfranchise African Americans.
1909 - Katherine Dunham is born in Joliet, Illinois. She
will become one of the revolutionary forces in modern
dance through her introduction and use of African and
Caribbean styles. Successful on the stage and in
movies, including "Stormy Weather", in the late 1960's,
she will form the Katherine Dunham Center for the
Performing Arts and in 1983 will be awarded Kennedy
Center honors. She will spend her later years residing
in East St. Louis, Illinois. She will join the
ancestors on May 21, 2006.
1937 - Joe Louis knocks out James Braddock to become the
heavyweight boxing champion of the world. The fight
is won in eight rounds before 45,000 fans, the largest
audience, to date, to witness a fight.
1938 - Joe Louis defeats German boxer Max Schmeling in a
rematch of their 1936 fight and retains his world
heavyweight crown. Because of the Nazi persecution of
Jews in Europe and Hitler's disdain for people of
African descent, the fight will take on mythic
proportion, with Louis seen by many as fighting to
uphold democracy and the race. He succeeds convincingly,
ending the fight in 2:04 of the first round at Yankee
Stadium.
1941 - Ed Bradley is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A
CBS correspondent covering the Vietnam conflict,
Bradley will become co-anchor of CBS' "60 Minutes" and
win at least six Emmy awards. Over the course of Bradley's
26 years on 60 Minutes, he will do over 500 stories,
covering nearly every possible type of news, from "heavy"
segments on war, politics, poverty, and corruption, to
lighter biographical pieces, or stories on sports, music,
and cuisine. Among others, he will interview Howard Stern,
Laurence Olivier, Subcomandante Marcos, Timothy McVeigh,
Neil Armstrong, Michael Jackson, Mick Jagger, Bill Bradley,
the 92-year-old George Burns, and Michael Jordan, as well
as conducting the first television interview of Bob Dylan
in 20 years. Some of his quirkier moments will include
playing Blackjack with the blind Ray Charles, interviewing
a Soviet general in a Russian sauna, and having a practical
joke played on him by Muhammad Ali. His favorite segment on
60 Minutes will be when, as a 40-year-old correspondent, he
will interview 64-year-old singer Lena Horne. He will say,
"If I arrived at the pearly gates and Saint Peter said,
'What have you done to deserve entry?' I'd just say, 'Did
you see my Lena Horne story?'" On the show, he will be
known for his sense of style. He will be the first male
correspondent to regularly wear an earring on the air. He
will have his left ear pierced in 1986 and say he was
inspired to do it after receiving encouragement from Liza
Minnelli following an interview with the actress. He will
also thus far the only male 60 Minutes anchor to do so,
though male correspondents from other network programs,
including Jim Vance, Jay Schadler, and Harold Dow, will
later wear earrings on camera. Besides 60 Minutes, he will
also anchor the news magazine program "Street Stories" on
CBS from 1992-1993. He will join the ancestors on November
9, 2006 after succumbing to leukemia at the age of 65.
1947 - Octavia Estelle Butler is born in Pasadena, California. She
will become a science fiction writer. As a multiple recipient
of both the Hugo and Nebula awards, she she will become in
1995 the first science-fiction writer to receive a MacArthur
Fellowship. After her father died, she will be raised by her
widowed mother. Extremely shy as a child, she will find an
outlet at the library reading fantasy, and in writing. She will
begin writing science fiction as a teenager. She will attend
community college during the Black Power movement, and while
participating in a local writer's workshop will be encouraged
to attend the Clarion Workshop, which focused on science
fiction. She will soon sell her first stories and by the late
1970s will become sufficiently successful as an author that
she will be able to pursue writing full-time. Her books and
short stories will draw the favorable attention of the public
and awards judges. She will also teach writer's workshops, and
eventually relocate to Washington. She will join the ancestors
on February 24, 2006, after succumbing to a stroke at the age
of 58. Her papers will be held in the research collection of
the Huntington Library.
1949 - Ezzard Charles defeats Jersey Joe Walcott to win the
heavyweight championship of the world.
1962 - Clyde Austin 'The Glide' Drexler is born in Houston, Texas.
He will become a basketball star at the University of
Houston and will lead Houston's "Phi Slamma Jamma" team
to the NCAA Final Four two years in a row, 1983 and 1984.
He will be drafted by the NBA Portland Trailblazers,
where he will play twelve seasons, and will lead them to
the NBA FInals twice. In 1992, he will be selected to the
U.S. Olympics basketball team, nicknamed "The Dream Team",
which will win the gold medal in Barcelona. After being
traded to the Houston Rockets, he will join his teammate
from the University of Houston, Hakeem Olajuwon and help
the Rockets win the NBA championship in 1995. After
retiring from the NBA, he will become the head coach at
his alma mater, the University of Houston. He will later
become the color commentator for the Houston Rockets. He
will be inducted into the Naismth Memorial Basketball Hall
of Fame on September 10, 2004, in his first year of
eligibility. He will be named one of basketball's fifty
greatest players by the NBA.
1963 - "Fingertips - Pt 2" by Little Stevie Wonder is released.
It becomes Wonder's first number one single on August 10th.
Stevie Wonder will have 46 hits on the pop and Rhythm &
Blues music charts between 1963 and 1987. Eight of those
hits will make it to number one.
1974 - Donald Adeosun Faison is born in New York, New York. He will
become an actor, comedian, and voice actor, best known for
his leading role as Dr. Chris Turk in the ABC/NBC comedy-
drama "Scrubs" (2001-2010), and a minor role as Murray in
the film "Clueless" (1995) and the subsequent television
series of the same name. He will also star as Phil Chase in
the TV Land sitcom "The Exes" (2011-15). He will also co-
star in the films "Waiting to Exhale" (1995), "Remember the
Titans" (2000), "Uptown Girls" (2003), "Something New" (2006),
"Next Day Air" (2009), and "Kick-Ass 2" (2013).
1989 - The government of Angola and the anti-Communist rebels of
the UNITA movement agree to a formal truce in their
14-year-old civil war.
1990 - African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela, speaking
before the United Nations, states that a democratic,
nonracial South Africa is "within our grasp."
1991 - "Kaleidoscope", an exhibit of the work of over 30 African
American photographers, opens at the Anacostia Museum in
Washington, DC. Among those exhibited are masters Addison
Scurlock and Robert Scurlock as well as contemporary
photographers Matthew Lewis, Sam Yette, Sharon Farmer, and
Brian Jones.
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