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* Today in Black History - June 26 *
1893 - William Lee Conley "Big Bill" Broonzy, blues singer, is born in
Scott, Mississippi.
1940 - Billy Davis Jr., singer with the 5th Dimension, is born in St. Louis,
Missouri.
1956 - Jazz trumpeter Clifford Brown joins the ancestors after being killed
in an auto accident on the Pennsylvania Turnpike. Founder of the
Brown-Roach Quintet with Max Roach two years earlier, Brown had
built a reputation as one of the finest jazz trumpeters of his day
as a major proponent of hard bop.
* Today in Black History - June 27 *
1970 - The Jackson Five: Marlon, Tito, Jackie, Jermaine and Michael, jump
to number one on the music charts with "The Love You Save". The
song will stay at the top of the charts for a two week run. It will
be the third of four number-one hits in a row for the group. The
other three are: "I Want You Back", "ABC" and "I'll Be There". In
15 years, from 1969 to 1984, The Jackson Five/Jacksons will have 23
hits, score two platinum singles ("Enjoy Yourself" and "Shake Your
Body [Down To The Ground]") and one gold record ("State of Shock").
* Today in Black History - June 29 *
1945 - Little Eva, rhythm and blues singer, ("Locomotion") is born.
1983 - The Apollo Theatre, in Harlem, New York, is declared a cultural
landmark.
1988 - Motown Records is sold for $ 61 million to an investment group
that includes a venture-capital firm, record executive Jheryl
Busby, and others. The company, which was founded by Berry
Gordy in 1959, produced some of the biggest rhythm and blues
performers of all time including the Supremes, the Temptations,
the Four Tops and Marvin Gaye.
* Today in Black History - June 30 *
1917 - Lena Horne is born in Brooklyn, New York. She will begin her career
at 16 as a chorus girl at the Cotton Club in Harlem, appear in the
movies "Cabin in the Sky" and "Stormy Weather" and have a
successful Broadway career culminating in her one-woman show.
Horne will also be a strong civil rights advocate, refusing to
perform in clubs where African Americans are not admitted and
marching during the civil rights movement in the 1960s.
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