Wednesday, April 07, 2010

Today in Black History 04/07/2010

*               Today in Black History - April 7                *

1712 - A slave uprising in New York City results in the death of
    nine whites.  This is one of the first major revolt of
    African slaves in the American colonies.  After the
    militia arrives, the uprising will be suppressed.  As a
    result of the action, twenty one slaves will be executed
    and six others will commit suicide.

1867 - Johnson C. Smith University is founded in Charlotte, North
    Carolina.

1872 - William Monroe Trotter is born in Chillicothe, Ohio. Editor
    of the Boston "Guardian," he will also be a militant civil
    rights activist and adversary of Booker T. Washington and
    his moderate politics.

1915 - Eleanor Fagan is born in East Baltimore, Maryland.  She will
    become a jazz singer who will influence the course of
    American popular singing, better known as Billie Holiday or
    "Lady Day." She will be best known for her songs, "Strange
    Fruit," "Lover Man," and "God Bless the Child." Although she
    will enjoy limited popular appeal during her lifetime, her
    impact on other singers will be profound. Troubled in life
    by addiction, She will join the ancestors as a result of
    drug and alcohol abuse in 1959.

1922 - Ramon "Mongo" Santamaria is born in Havana, Cuba. He will
    drop out of school to become a professional musician,
    playing gigs at the legendary Tropicana Club in Havana. In
    1950 Santamaria will move to New York, where he will hook
    up with such Latin jazz greats as Perez Prado, Tito Puente
    and Cal Tjader. In 1963 Santamaria will score his first Top
    10 hit with the single "Watermelon Man," written by then
    bandmate Herbie Hancock. Santamaria will perform and record
    steadily throughout the '60s, '70s, '80s and '90s. In 1977,
    he will be awarded a Grammy for his album "Amancer." In
    1999 Rhino Records will release a double-CD retrospective
    of Santamaria's music, The Mongo Santamaria Anthology
    1958-1995, culling his greatest work during those five
    decades. He will be considered one of the most influential
    percussionists of his generation. He will join the ancestors
    in Miami, Florida on February 1, 2003.

1934 - William Monroe Trotter joins the ancestors in Boston,
    Massachusetts at the age of sixty-two.

1938 - Trumpeter Frederick Dewayne Hubbard is born in Indianapolis,
    Indiana.  From a musical family, Hubbard will play four
    instruments in his youth and will later play with "Slide"
    Hampton, Quincy Jones, and Art Blakey.  A leader of his own
    band since the 1960's, he will record the noteworthy albums
    "Red Clay," "First Light," and the Grammy Award-winning
    "Straight Life."

1940 - The first U.S. stamp ever to honor an African American is
    issued bearing the likeness of Booker T. Washington.  His
    likeness is on a 10-cent stamp.

1954 - Tony Dorsett is born in Rochester, Pennsylvania.  He will
    become a star football player at the University of
    Pittsburgh, where he will win the Heisman Trophy in 1976. 
    He will then become the number one pick in the 1977 NFL
    draft by the Dallas Cowboys. He will play in two Super Bowls,
    five NFC championship games, four Pro Bowls, will be All-NFL
    in 1981, and NFC rushing champion in 1982. His career totals
    include 12,739 yards rushing, 398 receptions for 3,544 yards,
    16,326 combined net yards, 90 touchdowns, and a record 99
    yard run for a touchdown against the Minnesota Vikings in
    1983.  He will end his career with the 1988 Denver Broncos. 
    He will be enshrined in the NFL Hall of Fame in 1994.

1994 - Civil war erupts in Rwanda, a day after a mysterious plane
    crash claims the lives of the presidents of Rwanda and
    Burundi. In the months that follow, hundreds of thousands of
    minority Tutsi and Hutu intellectuals will be slaughtered.

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