Today in Black History 04/21/2010

*               Today in Black History - April 21               *

1878 - The ship Azor leaves Charleston, South Carolina, on its
    first trip, carrying 209 African Americans bound for
    Liberia.

1892 - African American Longshoremen strike for higher wages in St.
    Louis, Missouri.

1900 - Dumarsais Estime' is born in Verrettes, Artibonite, Haiti.
    He will become president of Haiti in 1946 and will be
    regarded as a progressive leader and statesman.  He will
    join the ancestors in New York City in 1953.

1938 - The Harlem Suitcase Theatre opens with Langston Hughes's
    play "Don't You Want to be Free?" The play's star is a
    young Robert Earl Jones, father of James Earl Jones.

1940 - Souleymane Cisse' is born in Bamako, Mali.  He will become
    a filmmaker, graduating from the State Institute of Cinema
    in Moscow in 1969.  He will become one of the most popular
    filmmakers in Africa.

1966 - Milton Olive, Jr. becomes the first African American to win
    the Congressional Medal of Honor for bravery during the
    Vietnam War. He will be honored for saving the lives of his
    fellow soldiers by falling on a live grenade while
    participating in a search-and-destroy mission near Phu
    Coung.

1965 - Pedro Albizu Campos joins the ancestors at the age of 71 in
    San Juan, Puerto Rico.  Campos was a Puerto Rican of
    African descent    who advocated Puerto Rico's independence
    and condemned United States imperialism and the 1898
    invasion and occupation of Puerto Rico.  Some Puerto Ricans
    refer to him as "Don Pedro," and one of the fathers of
    Puerto Rican national identity.

1966 - His Imperial Majesty, Haile Selassie visits Kingston,
    Jamaica.

1971 - Francois Duvalier, known as "Papa Doc," joins the ancestors
    in Port-au-Prince, Haiti at the age of 64.  He had been
    president-for-life of Haiti from 1957 to 1971. He will be
    succeeded in power by his son, Jean-Claude Duvalier.

1974 - By winning the Monsanto Open in Pensacola, Florida, Lee
    Elder becomes the first African American professional golfer
    to qualify for the Masters Tournament. It will be one of
    four PGA tour victories for the Dallas, Texas, native,
    including the Houston Open in 1976 and the Greater Milwaukee
    Open and Westchester Classic in 1978. Elder's career
    earnings of $2 million will place him among the top three
    African American golfers, along with Calvin Peete ($2.3
    million and 12 PGA tournament victories) and Charlie Sifford
    ($1 million).

2003 - Nina Simone, "High Priestess of Soul", joins the ancestors in
    Carry-le-Rouet (South of France) at the age of 70.  As she
    wished, her ashes will be spread in different African
    countries. She gained fame in the 1960s for her civil rights
    songs.

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