Today in Black History 04/15/2010

*               Today in Black History - April 15             *

1861 - President Lincoln calls for 75,000 troops to put down
    the rebellion. The Lincoln administration rejects
    African American volunteers. For almost two years
    straight African Americans fight for the right, as one
    humorist puts it, "to be kilt".

1889 - Asa Philip Randolph is born in Crescent Way, Florida. 
    He will become a labor leader, the organizer of the
    Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters in 1925, and a
    tireless fighter for civil rights.  He will join the
    ancestors in 1979.

1919 - Elizabeth Catlett is born in Washington, DC.  She will
    become an internationally known printmaker and sculptor
    who will emigrate to Mexico and embrace both African
    and Mexican influences in her art.

1922 - Harold Washington is born in Chicago, Illinois. He will
    serve in the Illinois House of Representatives and
    Senate as well as two terms in Congress before becoming
    the first African American mayor of Chicago.  He will
    join the ancestors after suffering a massive heart
    attack on November 25, 1987 after being re-elected to a
    second term as mayor.

1928 - Pioneering architect Norma Merrick (later Sklarek) is
    born in New York City.  Sklarek will be the first
    licensed woman architect in the United States and the
    first African American woman to become a fellow in the
    American Institute of Architects (1980).

1947 - Baseball player Jackie Robinson plays his first major-
    league baseball game (he had played exhibition games
    previously) for the Brooklyn Dodgers, becoming the
    first African American in the major leagues since Moses
    Fleetwood Walker played in 1885. The Brooklyn Dodgers
    promoted him to the majors from the Montreal Royals.

1957 - Evelyn Ashford is born in Shreveport, Louisiana. She
    will grow up in Roseville, California becoming a track
    star specializing in sprinting.  She will be a four-
    time winner of Olympic gold medals and one silver in
    1976, 1984, 1988, and 1992. In 1979, she will set a
    world record in the 200-meter dash. In 1989 she will
    receive the Flo Hyman Award from the Woman's Sports
    Foundation. In 1992, the U.S. Olympic team will ask her
    to carry the flag during the opening ceremonies in the
    Barcelona Olympics. She will retire from track and
    field in 1993 at the age of 36.

1958 - African Freedom Day is declared at the All-African
    People's Conference in Accra, Ghana.

1960 - The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) is
    formed on the campus of Shaw University in Raleigh,
    North Carolina.

1985 - Thomas "Hit Man" Hearns wins the World Middleweight
    title. This is one of five weight classes in which he
    will win a boxing title making him the first African
    American to win boxing titles in five different weight
    classes.

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