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******* Today in Black History – June 17, 2018 *******
1775 - Former slave Peter Salem shoots and kills British
Commander Major
John Pitcairn, becoming the hero of
the Battle of
Bunker Hill. Salem, along with Seasor,
Pharoah,
Salem Poor, Barzaillai Lew, and Cuff
Whittmore,
fights in the battles of Bunker Hill and
Breed's Hill.
Pitcairn was the major who ordered
British soldiers to
fire on the Minutemen at
Lexington.
1822 - In New York City, the first elders of the newly
founded African
Methodist Episcopal (AME) Zion Church
are ordained.
1871 - James William Johnson is born in Jacksonville,
Florida.
He will become a
writer ("Autobiography of an Ex-Colored
Man"), poet,
first African American admitted to the
Florida bar,
diplomat, executive secretary of the NAACP,
and professor. He
will change his middle name to Weldon
in 1913. He also
will write the words and his brother
J. Rosamond Johnson
will write the music to "Lift Every
Voice And Sing", referred to as the "Negro National
Anthem." He
will join the ancestors on June 26, 1938 near
his summer home in
Wiscasset, Maine, when the car in which
he will be driving,
is struck by a train.
1897 - William Frank Powell, a New Jersey educator, is
named minister to
Haiti.
1957 - A major boycott begins in Tuskegee, Alabama. African
Americans boycott
city stores in protest against an
act of the state
legislature which deprives them of
municipal votes by
placing their homes outside city
limits.
1966 - Stokely Carmichael calls for the Black Power Movement
at a Greenwood,
Mississippi rally.
1967 - Six days of racially motivated disturbances end in
Newark, New Jersey,
in the worst urban violence since
the Watts Rebellion
of 1965.
1969 - Jazz musician, Charles Mingus, comes out of a two-year,
self-imposed
retirement to make a concert appearance at
the Village
Vanguard in New York City.
1972 - Frank Wills, a Washington, DC security guard, foils the
break-in at offices
of the Democratic National Committee.
The offices at the
Watergate complex, are targeted for
the placement of
surveillance equipment. This will be the
first event of the
Watergate conspiracy. Mr. Wills will
be rewarded for his
actions by losing his job and
becoming unable to
get another security job in the
Washington area.
1990 - South African Black nationalist Nelson Mandela and his
wife, Winnie,
arrive in Ottawa, Canada, en route to an
11-day tour of the
United States.
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The source for these facts are "Encyclopedia Britannica,
"Before the
Mayflower", "Black Firsts" and independent
research by Mr. Rene’ A. Perry, Sr.
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