*               Today in Black History - April 18             *

1818 - Andrew Jackson defeats a force of Indians and African 
	Americans at the Battle of Suwanee, ending the First 
	Seminole War.

1861 - Nicholas Biddle becomes the first African American in 
	uniform to be wounded in the Civil War.

1864 - The First Kansas Colored Volunteers break through 
	Confederate lines at Poison Spring, Arkansas. The 
	unit will sustain heavy losses when captured African 
	American soldiers are murdered by Confederate troops 
	as opposed to being taken as POWs, which is the 
	standard treatment for captured whites.

1877 - The American Nicodemus Town Company is founded by six 
	African American settlers in northwestern Kansas. The 
	town will be settled later in the year.

1924 - Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown is born in Vinton, Louisiana. 
	He will become a blues musician and will be inspired by
	the sounds of T-Bone Walker, Count Basie and Duke 
	Ellington. He will become a Grammy winner and be 
	nominated six times. He will be unrivaled in his 
	ability to seamlessly combine blues, country, soul and 
	jazzy Rhythm & Blues. He will be best known for his 
	hits, "Okie Dokie Stomp," "Boogie Rambler," "Just 
	Before Dawn," "Dirty Work At The Crossroads," and 
	"Gatemouth Boogie." He will join the ancestors on
	September 10, 2005.

1941 - Bus companies in New York City agree to hire African 
	American drivers and mechanics. This agreement ends a 
	four-week boycott.

1941 - Dr. Robert Weaver is named director of Office of 
	Production Management section, charged with integrating 
	African Americans into the National Defense Program.

1955 - The Bandung Conference of leaders of "colored" nations 
	of Africa and Asia opens in Indonesia. Hosted by 
	Indonesian President Sukarno, the conference is 
	attended by representatives of 29 African and Asian 
	countries. Its main objective was to express their 
	opposition to the colonialist and imperialist policies 
	of First World nations.

1961 - James Benton Parsons is the first African American judge 
	of a U.S. district court in the continental United 
	States. Chicago attorney Parsons is appointed judge of
	the U.S. District Court of Northern Illinois.  

1983 - Alice Walker is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for "The 
	Color Purple." Ten days later, the novel will also win 
	the American Book Award for fiction.

2013 - Donna Summer, born LaDonna Adrian Gaines, is posthumously 
	inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

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