When martin Luther King came to chicago in the late 60s, no church would let him speak, but one! All the others said he was a radial preacher.

Friendship Baptist Church on Chicagos westside allowed Rev. L. King to speak about civil rights!Rev Shelvin J. Hall showed no fear and allowed King to speak!

I know because its in all of our churchs history books.I attend Friendship Baptist Church.

Derek Sanderson Jeter is an American baseball star who plays for the Yankees. He was born on June 26, 1974, in Pequannok, New Jersey to mixed race parents. His father is African American and worked as a drug abuse counselor whereas his mother is of German and Irish descent. His parents gave him a positive upbringing and encouraged him and his sister to play sports. Jeter attended Kalamazoo Central High School and played basketball and baseball, whereas his sister played softball. During high school, Jeter had an impressive batting average and idolized the Yankees player Dave Winfield. He received several honors including Kalamazoo Area B’nai B’rith Award for Scholar Athlete, All-State honorable mention, 1992 High School Player of the Year Award from the American Baseball Coaches Association, USA Today’s High School Player of the Year and 1992 Gatorade High School Player of the Year award.

After high school, Jeter was offered a baseball scholarship by the University of Michigan but instead chose to turn pro and accepted a contract with the New York Yankees for $800,000. He started playing professionally in 1992 with the Gulf Coast Yankees but had a rough start to his career. In his first professional game he struck out 5 times and failed to get a hit in seven at-bats. His performance was no better during the rest of the season, with a batting average of 0.202 in 47 games. He was benched during the final game of the season so his average would not fall below 0.200, known in baseball as the Mendoza Line. He was frustrated by his lack of success on the field but his parents continued to encourage and support him.

He was promoted to the Greensboro Hornets of the Class A South Atlantic League and given more at-bats in the next season where he performed only marginally better. He focused on improving his fielding and was ranked 44th among the top 100 prospects in baseball before the 1993 season. His average improved and before his first full season of professional baseball he was voted him the “Most Outstanding Major

James Weldon Johnson was a prominent African American leader born on June 17, 1871 in Jacksonville, Florida. He was brought up in a liberal environment where his parents encouraged him to acquire an education and pursue his dreams. His mother taught him and his brother the works of classical literature as well as music. After finishing high school, Johnson took admission in Clark Atlanta University from where he received a bachelor’s degree in 1894.  He then returned to his hometown to work as the principal of the Stanton School. He was only 23 years old at the time.

One of Johnson’s earliest accomplishments was to establish a newspaper centered on issues faced by the black community. He named it the “Daily American”. The publication only lasted for one year before it succumbed to financial troubles. However, it helped him to establish his presence in society and brought him into the notice of eminent personalities such as Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois. Johnson then decided to study law and became the first African American to pass the bar exams. He established a successful practice in Jacksonville while his brother studied at the New England Conservatory of Music. Eventually Jackson joined his brother in New York where they both began writing songs for Broadway musicals. Together they wrote over 200 songs, but the most famous one was “Lift Every Voice and Sing”. This was originally written as a celebration for Abraham Lincoln’s birthday but was later hailed as the “black anthem” by National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).

James Weldon Johnson was a prolific author and wrote several books and poems including “God’s Trombones” in 1927 and “Fifty Years and Other Poems” in 1917. He was an important part of the African American group known as the Harlem Renaissance and contributed several books, poems and lectures. It was during this time that he wrote “The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man” in 1912 which he first published anonymously and only later admitted to being the

Physician Bernard A. Harris, Jr was born in Temple, Texas.

After completing his residency training in 1985 at the Mayo Clinic, Dr. Harris then completed a National Research Council Fellowship at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California. While at Ames he conducted research in the field of musculoskeletal physiology, and disuse osteoporosis, completing his fellowship in 1987. He then joined NASA Johnson Space Center as a clinical scientist and flight surgeon.

Selected by NASA in January 1990, Dr. Harris became an astronaut in July 1991. He served as the crew representative for Shuttle Software in the Astronaut Office Operations Development Branch. A veteran of two space flights, Dr. Harris has logged more than 438 hours in space.

Sit-in demonstrations and passive resistance movement began in Cairo, Illinois. Demonstrations against segregation in swimming pool, skating rink and other facilities continued for several months.

Jazz trumpeter Clifford Brown dies 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.

Aimé Césaire , in full Aimé-Fernand-David Césaire (born June 26, 1913, Basse-Pointe, Mart.

James Weldon Johnson died of injuries received in an automobile accident near his summer home in Wiscosset, Maine.

At least 20 people were killed in March 2015 when gunmen went on a shooting spree at the National Bardo Museum in the capital, Tunis. Security forces killed two of the gunmen, Yassine Laabidi and Hatem Khachnaoui. Officials said they believe an accomplice escaped. The Islamic State and a smaller extremist group, Okba Ibn Nafaa, claimed responsibility for the attack. The victims were passengers of a cruise ship, and Tunisian authorities believe the gunmen targeted the countrys tourism industry, a substantial source of revenue for Tunisia.

They wanted to attack an economic sector that is very important for Tunisia, a sector that is already in difficulties, and try to sink once and for all the economic development of the country, said Prime Minister Habib Essid.

On June 26, 2015, a gunman, identified as 23-year-old Seifeddine Rezgui, opened fire at the Port El Kantaoui resort, killing 38 tourists. It was the second attack on tourists in Tunisia in three months. The Islamic State claimed responsibility for both attacks.

See also Encyclopedia: Tunisia .

U.S. State Dept. Country Notes: Tunisia

National Statistics Institute (In French only) www.ins.nat.tn/ .

Prince Edward County, Va., Board of Supervisors abandoned school system to prevent integration.

W.E.B. Du Bois resigned from his position at the NAACP in a disagreement over policy and racial strategy.