Today in Black History 04/04/2010

*               Today in Black History - April 4                *

1915 - McKinley Morganfield is born in Rolling Fork, Mississippi. He
    will be discovered in 1941 by two music archivists from the
    Library of Congress, traveling the back roads of Mississippi
    looking for the legendary Robert Johnson.  They recorded two
    of Morganfield's songs and lit a fire in the ambitious young
    man.  He will leave Mississippi for Chicago two years later
    to become a blues singer better known as "Muddy Waters." He
    will join the ancestors on April 30, 1983 in Chicago,
    Illinois.

1928 - Marguerite Ann Johnson is born in St. Louis, Missouri. She
    will become the first African American streetcar conductor
    in San Francisco, a dancer, nightclub singer, editor, and
    teacher    of music and drama in Ghana and professor of
    American Studies at Wake Forest University,  better known as         Maya Angelou. She will also become noted as the author of a
    multi-volume autobiographical series, as well as several
    volumes of poetry.

1938 - Vera Mae Smart Grosvenor, who will become the author of the
    popular and influential cookbook "Vibration Cooking"(1970),
    is born in Fairfax, South Carolina.

1939 - Hugh Masekela is born in South Africa.  He will become a
    musician and band leader.  He will be a major force in South
    African Jazz, and will become known throughout the world.

1942 - Richard Parsons is born in New York City.  In 1990, he will
    be named chief executive officer of Dime Savings Bank, the
    first African American CEO of a large, non-minority U.S.
    savings institution.

1959 - The Federation of Mali is formed, consisting of Senegal & the
    territory of Mali in the French Sudan.  It will dissolve in
    1960.

1960 - Senegal and Mali gain separate independence.

1968 - Acknowledged leader of the U.S. civil rights movement, Martin
    Luther King, Jr. joins the ancestors after being
    assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee.  His death will result
    in a national day of mourning and the postponement of the
    beginning of the baseball season.  Over 30,000 people will
    form a funeral procession behind his coffin, pulled by two
    Georgia mules. King's death will also set off racially
    motivated civil disturbances in 160 cities leaving 82 people
    dead and causing $ 69 million in property damage.  President
    Lyndon B. Johnson declares Sunday, April 6, a national day
    of mourning and orders all U.S. flags on government
    buildings in all U.S. territories and possessions to fly at
    half-mast.

1972 - Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., former congressman and civil rights
    leader, joins the ancestors in Miami, Florida at the age of
    63.

1974 - Hank Aaron ties the baseball career home run record set by
    Babe Ruth, when he hits his 714th home run in Cincinnati,
    Ohio.

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