*               Today in Black History - April 27               *

1883 - Hubert Henry Harrison, is born in St. Croix, Virgin Islands. 
	He will become, by the 1920s, one of the nation's most 
	prominent atheists.  Harrison will recognize the connection 
	between racism and religion, and point this out quite 
	bluntly.  The Bible was a slave master's book in Harrison's 
	eyes, which not only sanctioned the keeping of slaves, but 
	even gave advice on their handling.  He will state that 
	any African American person who accepts Christianity was 
	either ignorant or crazy.  He also will address Islam by 
	stating that the slave masters may have been largely 
	Christian, but many of the slave traders were Muslims, 
	apparently not deterred by their faith. He will join the
	ancestors on December 17, 1927.

1903 - The publication of W.E.B. DuBois's "The Souls of Black Folk" 
	crystallizes opposition to Booker T. Washington's program 
	of social and political subordination.

1903 - Maggie L. Walker is named president of Richmond's St. Luke 
	Penny Bank and Trust Company and becomes the first woman to 
	head a bank.

1903 - The U.S. Supreme Court upholds clauses in the Alabama state
	constitution which disfranchises African Americans.

1927 - Coretta Scott is born in Marion, Alabama. She will marry 
	Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1953 and be an integral part of 
	his civil rights activities. After his assassination in 
	1968, she will continue her civil rights activities, 
	founding the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent 
	Change in Atlanta, Georgia.  She will join the ancestors on 
	January 31, 2006 after succumbing to complications of a
	stroke and heart attack.

1944 - Rhythm-and-blues singer Cuba Gooding is born.

1949 - Rhythm-and-blues singer Herbie Murrell (The Stylistics) is 
	born.

1960 - Togo achieves its independence from France.  Sylvanus 
	Olymplo serves as its first prime minister.

1961 - Sierra Leone obtains its independence from Great Britain 
	with Dr. Milton Margai as its first prime minister.

1961 - Kwame Nkrumah, African statesman and the first president of 
	Ghana, joins the ancestors in exile, in Conarky, Guinea at 
	the age of 62.

1977 - Artist Charles Alston joins the ancestors in New York City. 
	After studying at Columbia University and Pratt Institute, 
	he had traveled to Europe and the Caribbean before 
	executing murals for Harlem Hospital and Golden State 
	Mutual Life Insurance Company in Los Angeles.  A recipient 
	of the National Academy of Design Award, he also received 
	the first-place award of the Atlanta University 
	Collection's 1942 show for his gouache "Farm Boy."  His 
	best known works are "Family" and "Walking." Among his 
	other notable works are "School Girl," "Frederick Douglass,"
	and "Nobody Knows."

1994 - The first "Freedom Day" takes place in South Africa.

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