June 20, 1943 The Detroit Race Riot began with a fist fight between a black man and a white man on Belle Isle. The fight eventually grew into confrontations between groups of blacks and whites, spreading into the city. Rumors that black women were being assaulted and white women being raped fueled the confrontations. Stores […]
Archive | June 20, 2011
June 20th in African American History – Lionel Brockman Richie
June 20, 1949 Lionel Brockman Richie, singer, songwriter and record producer, was born in Tuskegee, Alabama. Richie went to Tuskegee Institute on a tennis scholarship and graduated in 1974 with a bachelor’s degree in economics. In 1968, he became a singer and saxophonist with the Commodores who became popular with albums such as “Natural High” […]