Today in Blackness: 1921 - Bessie Coleman becomes the first U.S. woman to receive a pilot's license

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June 10, 1941 - Civil Rights icon and Pan-African leader Marcus Garvey passes away in London, UK

June 9, 1929 - R&B singer Johnny Ace was born John Marshall Alexander, Jr. in Memphis, Tennessee

June 8, 1953 - Martin Luther King weds Coretta Scott at the Scott home near Marion, Alabama

June 7, 1958 - Composer, musician, singer, icon Prince Rogers Nelson is born in Minneapolis, Minnesota

June 6, 1987 - Mae C. Jemison, M.D. was chosen by NASA to begin training as a space shuttle astronaut

June 3, 1942 - Soul Music icon Curtis Mayfield was born in Chicago, Illinois

June 2, 1868 - John Hope, the first Black President of Morehouse, was born in Augusta, Georgia

June 1, 1973 - WGPR in Detroit, Michigan becomes the 1st Black owned Television station given a permit to operate.

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