1853 - Harriet Tubman starts as a conductor on the Underground
Railroad.
1871 - Third Enforcement Act defines Klan conspiracy as a rebellion
against the United States and empowers the president to
suspend the writ of habeas corpus and declare martial law
in rebellious areas.
1877 - Federal troops are withdrawn from public buildings in New
Orleans, Louisiana. Democrats then take over the state
government.
1908 - Lionel Hampton is born in Louisville, Kentucky. He will
become trained as a drummer and starts his musical career
on this instrument. In 1930, while in a recording session
with Louis Armstrong, He will become fall in love with the
sound of a vibraphone that was used only to play the famous
NBC bing-bang-bong station identification. This will lead
to Armstrong asking Hampton to add the instrument to the
score they were about to record. "Memories of You", the
song premiering Hampton on the vibraphone, will become a
classic. He will go on to become the best-known jazz master
of the vibraphone. He will join the ancestors on August 31,
2002.
1920 - Mary J. Reynolds invents a hoisting/loading mechanism.
1926 - Harriet Elizabeth Byrd is born in Cheyenne, Wyoming. She
will become a teacher and in 1981, the first African
American legislator in Wyoming's state history.
1951 - Luther Vandross is born in New York City. An early backup
singer and commercial jingle writer, his big break as a
solo artist will come in 1981 when his album "Never Too
Much" will reveal his talents to both Rhythm & Blues and
pop audiences. He will make a string of hit albums,
earning seven consecutive platinum and double-platinum
albums and achieve his greatest crossover success with the
albums "The Best of Luther Vandross" and "Power of Love,"
which will earn him three Grammy awards. He will join the
ancestors from complications of diabetes and a stroke on
July 1, 2005.
1964 - Cleveland school officials report that 86 per cent of the
African American students in the school system participated
in one-day boycott.
1965 - President Lyndon Johnson awards the Medal of Freedom to
Leontyne Price, for "Her singing has brought light to her
land."
1969 - James Earl Jones wins a Tony for his portrayal of
controversial heavyweight champion Jack Johnson in "The
Great White Hope."
1971 - The U.S. Supreme Court rules unanimously that busing is a
constitutionally acceptable method of integrating public
schools.
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