*		 Today in Black History - October 24              *

1892 - 25,000 African American workers strike in New Orleans, 
	Louisiana. This is the first major job stoppage in U.S.
	labor history by African Americans.

1923 - The U.S. Department of Labor issues a report stating that 
	approximately 500,000 African Americans had left the South 
	in the preceding twelve months.

1935 - Langston Hughes's play "Mulatto" opens on Broadway. It will 
	have the longest run of any play by an African American 
	until Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun."

1935 - Italy invades Ethiopia. African Americans hold mass meetings 
	of protest and raise funds for the Ethiopian defenders.
 
1936 - The Boston Chronicle blasts the soon-to-be-released movie 
	"The Big Broadcast" of 1937 for featuring a white pianist 
	who appears in the movie while Teddy Wilson actually plays 
	the music: "The form of racial discrimination and 
	falsification of acts...is frequently duplicated by many 
	whites in their daily dealings with Negroes...Negro farm 
	hands and laborers in other fields of industry produce 
	billions of dollars of wealth, but the white landowners and 
	sweat shop operators get all the profit." 

1942 - In recognition of the influence of so-called race music, 
	Billboard magazine creates its first ratings chart devoted 
	to African American music, The Harlem Hit Parade. The 
	number-one record is "Take It & Git" by Andy Kirk and His 
	Twelve Clouds of Joy, featuring Mary Lou Williams on piano. 

1948 - Frizzel Gerald Gray is born in Baltimore, Maryland. He will be
	better known as Kweisi Mfume, an adopted African name that 
	means "Conquering Son of Kings." In 1978, he will be elected 
	to the Baltimore City Council, serving there until 1986. His 
	political stance will be against that of then-mayor William 
	Donald Schaefer, who he believed had ignored the many poor 
	neighborhoods of the city. It will be a contentious matter, but 
	despite his strong opinions, he will learn the art of political 
	compromise. He will be perceived by many to have had some 
	success during his stay in office, a fact perhaps reflected by 
	his subsequent election to the United States House of 
	Representatives in 1986, despite a torrent of criticism, 
	directed in no small part against his early past. Serving in 
	Maryland's 7th Congressional district for five terms, he will make
	himself known as a Democrat with an apparent balance between 
	strong progressive ideologies and a capacity for practical 
	compromise, representing a district that included both West 
	Baltimore and suburban and rural communities, though his primary 
	goal was an increase in federal aid to American inner cities. In 
	his fourth term, he will be made chairman of the Congressional 
	Black Caucus. In February 1996, he will leave the House to accept 
	the presidency of the National Association for the Advancement of 
	Colored People (NAACP), stating that he could do more to improve 
	American civil rights there than in the Congress. He will reform 
	the association's finances to pay off its considerable debt while 
	pursuing the cause of civil rights advancement for African 
	Americans. Many citizens in Baltimore will want him to run for 
	mayor in the 1999 election, but he will stay with the NAACP. He will
	serve in this position for nine years before stepping down in 2004.
	He will run unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate in 2006. In May 2013, 
	he will be named Chairman of his alma mater, Morgan State University,
	assuming the position on July 1, 2013.

1964 - Kenneth David Kuanda becomes President of Zambia as Zambia 
	(Northern Rhodesia) gains independence from Great Britain. 

1972 - Jack Roosevelt "Jackie" Robinson joins the ancestors at the age of 53 
	in Stamford, Connecticut.

2017 - Robert Guillaume, Emmy Award-winning actor best known as the title 
	character in the TV sitcom "Benson", joins the ancestors at the age
	of 89 after succumbing to prostate cancer.

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