Kenneth Chenault, born

Fugitive slave Anthony Burns was returned to the South from Boston. It cost the federal government $100,000 to return Burns, who was later sold to a group of Bostonians who freed him.

Black Americans observed day of fasting called by National Afro-American Council to protest lynching and racial massacres.

James A Healy, first Black Roman Catholic bishop, consecrated in cathedral at Portland, Maine.

On June 2, 2012, a three-judge panel sentenced Mubarak to life in prison for being an accessory to murder in the killing of hundreds of unarmed protesters in early 2011. The former president and his sons were acquitted of corruption. However, the panel cleared several of Mubaraks security officials who were responsible for ordering the attacks on protesters. Thousands of demonstrators poured into the streets of Cairo after the verdict was announced to protest what they considered a weak verdict. Mubarak appealed, and in January 2013 the Court of Cassation ordered a retrial. In August 2013, he was transferred from prison to a military hospital in Cairo and has remained there under house arrest.

Cornel West is an American philosopher, activist, academic and intellectual; he is also the first African-American to have graduated from Princeton University with a PhD in Philosophy.

Cornel Ronald West was born on June 2, 1963 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. His family moved to Sacramento, California during his childhood, where he attended the John F. Kennedy High School. West was class president at John F. Kennedy, and he used this position to organize marches and protests against the school so that they would provide courses in black history.

West was accepted at Harvard University in 1970 where he majored in Near Eastern Languages and Civilization. He also took courses from highly eminent philosophers, including Robert Nozick and Stanley Cavill.

In 1980, West became the first African American to earn a PhD in philosophy from Princeton University. His dissertation was titled “The Ethical Dimensions of Marxist Thought”. After his graduation, he returned to Harvard as a W.E.B. Du Bois Fellow, later he taught as an Assistant Professor at the Union of Theological Seminary. In 1984, he accepted a teaching assignment at the Yale Divinity School. However, he was soon imprisoned after he was charged for heading protests that demanded divestment from an apartheid South Africa. After his release, West returned to Princeton to serve as a Professor of Religion and as a Director of African American Studies from 1988 to 1994. West then served the same position at Harvard after 1994; however, he resigned from the position in 2002 after a debate with the University President, Lawrence Summers. West then returned to Princeton in 2002, after which he created “one of the world’s leading centers of African American studies” according to Shirley Tilghman, who was Princeton’s President in 2011. West retired from his position at Princeton in 2012 as a Professor Emeritus and he now regularly teaches at the Union Theological Seminary.

Cornel West is mostly famous for his racial views and activism. He is credited to have called the United

Ellas McDaniel (born Ellas Otha Bates, December 30, 1928 – June 2, 2008), known as Bo Diddley, was an American R&B singer, guitarist, songwriter and music producer who played a key role in the transition from the blues to rock and roll, and influenced artists including Elvis Presley,[1] Buddy Holly, the Beatles,[2] [3] the Rolling Stones, the Yardbirds, Eric Clapton,[4] the Who, Jimi Hendrix, George Thorogood, Parliament-Funkadelic, and The Clash.[5]

His use of African rhythms and a signature beat, a simple five-accent hambone rhythm, is a cornerstone of hip hop, rock, and pop music.[2] [3] [6] In recognition of his achievements, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and received Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Rhythm and Blues Foundation [3] [7] and a Grammy Award [8] from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. He is also recognized for his technical innovations, including his distinctive rectangular guitar.

Born in McComb, Mississippi, as Ellas Otha Bates,[9] he was adopted and raised by his mothers cousin, Gussie McDaniel, whose surname he assumed. In 1934, the McDaniel family moved to the South Side of Chicago, where he dropped the Otha and became Ellas McDaniel. He was an active member of Chicagos Ebenezer Baptist Church, where he studied the trombone and the violin, becoming so proficient on the violin that the musical director invited him to join the orchestra. He performed until he was 18. However, he was more interested in the pulsating, rhythmic music he heard at a local Pentecostal church and took up the guitar.[10] [11]

Inspired by a performance by John Lee Hooker,[3] he supplemented his income as a carpenter and mechanic by playing on street corners with friends, including Jerome Green (c. 1934–1973),[12] in the Hipsters band, later renamed the Langley Avenue Jive Cats. Green became a near-constant member of McDaniels backing band, the two often trading joking insults with each other during live shows.[13] [unreliable source?] During the summers of 1943 and

Fifth national Black convention met in New York with fifty delegates from eight states.

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Ellas Otha Bathes, more commonly known by his stage name “Bo Diddley”, was an American R&B vocalist, guitarist and songwriter. Diddley was also known as ‘The Originator’ due to his vital role in the transition of Blues music to Rock and Roll.

Bates was born on December 30, 1928 in McComb, Mississippi. He was soon adopted by his mother’s cousin, Gussie McDaniels, who raised him in Chicago. Bates was highly interested by the Church Music of the Ebenezer Baptist Church and the Pentecostal Church; the latter inspired him to take up the guitar, and the former was where he studied the trombone and the violin.

Bates dropped his last name and replaced it with McDaniels in his early years in Chicago. He initially worked as a mechanic and a carpenter, but after listening to a performance by blues guitarist John Lee Hooker, he decided to play at various street corners alongside musicians such as Jerome Green, and later Earl Hooker, Jody Williams, and Billy Boy Arnold. In 1954, McDaniels officially adopted the stage name “Bo Diddley”, and released a record by that name in 1955 alongside Billy Boy Arnold, Clifton James, and Roosevelt Jackson. The record topped the R&B charts in 1955.

Diddley garnered a lot of attention in 1955 when he appeared on “The Ed Sullivan Show”. Diddley double-crossed Sullivan by playing his own song, “Bo Diddley”, in addition to the song that he was instructed to play. The stunt was quite publicized and Diddley was banned from the show. Even so, Diddley defended himself by saying that it was a misunderstanding and that it was not his intention to go behind Sullivan’s back.

In 1956, Diddley released another album titled “Pretty Thing”, which was followed by “Say Man” in 1959, “Bo Diddley is a Gunslinger” in 1960, and “You Can’t Judge a Book by its Cover” in 1962. One of the songs that significantly augmented his popularity was the pop hit, “Love is Strange”, that he co-wrote with Jody Williams for “Mickey & Sylvia”.

Diddley’s line-up changed from time to time; it included the Chess Brothers, Harvey

Cornel West , (born June 2, 1953, Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S.), American philosopher, scholar of African American studies, and political activist. His influential book Race Matters (1993) lamented what he saw as the spiritual impoverishment of the African American underclass and critically examined the “crisis of black leadership” in the United States.

West’s father was a civilian U.S. Air Force administrator and his mother an elementary school teacher and eventually a principal. During West’s childhood the family settled in an African American working-class neighbourhood in Sacramento, California. There West regularly attended services at the local Baptist church, where he listened to moving testimonials of privation, struggle, and faith from parishioners whose grandparents had been slaves. Another influence on West during this time was the Black Panther Party, whose Sacramento offices were near the church he attended. The Panthers impressed upon him the importance of political activism at the local level and introduced him to the writings of Karl Marx.

In 1970, at age 17, West entered Harvard University on a scholarship. He graduated magna cum laude three years later with a bachelor’s degree in Middle Eastern languages and literature. He attended graduate school in philosophy at Princeton University, where he was influenced by the American pragmatist philosopher Richard Rorty. (West briefly abandoned work on his dissertation to write a novel, which was never published.) After receiving his doctoral degree in 1980, West taught philosophy, religion, and African American studies at several colleges and universities, including Union Theological Seminary, Yale University (including the Yale Divinity School), the University of Paris, Princeton University, and Harvard University, where he was appointed Alphonse Fletcher, Jr., University Professor in 1998. He returned to Princeton in 2002 as Class of 1943 University Professor in the Center for African American Studies.

West’s work was characteristically wide-ranging,

In Episode 17, Combahee River Raid, we look at the events of June 2, 1863, when Union Colonel James Montgomery led the 2nd South Carolina Colored Infantry Regiment and the 3rd Rhode Island Heavy Artillery up the Combahee River, to raid Confederate outposts and rice plantations. Harriet Tubman worked with Colonel Montgomery to plan the raid and scout the Combahee River for mines. The aftermath of this successful raid greatly reduced Confederate supplies, established a Union blockade on the river and freed nearly 700 enslaved men and women.

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Dubbed “The Moses of Her People,” escaped slave Harriet Tubman assisted hundreds of slaves on the Underground Railroad, leading them from Maryland to safety in Pennsylvania.  Born enslaved and raised in Dorchester County, Maryland to Benjamin and Harriett Greene Ross, Harriett was both a field hand and a domestic servant.  As a young girl, she suffered a lifelong injury after her master threw a piece of iron at her, which struck her in the head.  Throughout her life, Harriett suffered bouts of narcoleptic seizures.  In 1844, she married a free black man, John Tubman.  She escaped in 1849 in order to avoid being sold into the Deep South. Her husband refused to go with her.  Several months later, when she returned to get him, she learned he had taken another wife.  He died shortly after the end of the Civil War. Harriett later married Nelson Davis.

Upon her escape, Tubman trekked northward to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where, like most working class free black women, she found employment as a washer woman and domestic servant.  At the same time, she participated in the Underground Railroad, and as a result, developed networks with both black and white abolitionists.  

During the Civil War Tubman served as a spy for the Union Army. On June 2, 1863, however, Tubman, under the command of Union Colonel James Montgomery, led 150 black Union soldiers in the Combahee River Raid in South Carolina.  This was the only Civil War military engagement where a woman was the commander.  Tubman who was already aware of vital information about the location of Confederate torpedoes planted along the river, led Union gunboats to specific areas where fugitive slaves were hiding and waiting to be rescued. Eventually 750 people were liberated from slavery. Some of the men eventually joined the First South Carolina Volunteers, the military regiment established for former slaves in coastal South Carolina in 1862.  The Combahee River Raid was a major miltary and psychological blow to the Confederate cause.

After the end of the Civil War

Forrester was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on June 2, 1941.

Race riot, Roxbury section of Boston.

Dorothy West , (born June 2, 1907, Boston, Massachusetts, U.

John Hope was born on this day.

Ninety-ninth Pursuit Squadron flew first combat mission, strafing enemy positions on the heavily fortified Italian Island of Pantelleria.

James Augustine Healy, the first African American Roman Catholic Bishop, born in Macon, Georgia.