*               Today in Black History - May 11         *

1895 - William Grant Still is born in Woodville, Mississippi. Considered
        one of the nation's greatest composers, he will begin his career
        by writing arrangements for W.C. Handy and as musical director for
        Harry Pace's Phonograph Corporation.  One of his most famous
        compositions, Afro-American Symphony, will be the first symphonic
        work by an African American to be performed by a major symphony
        orchestra, the Rochester Philharmonic Symphony, in 1931.  He will
        also be the first African American to conduct a major U.S.
        symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, in 1936.

1933 - Louis Eugene Walcott is born in New York City.  He will be better
        known as Louis X, minister of the Nation of Islam mosque in Harlem
        and later as Louis Farrakhan, national representative of the
        Honorable Elijah Muhammad of a revived Nation of Islam.

1963 - One day after Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth announces agreement on a
        limited integration plan in Birmingham, Alabama, his home is bombed
        and a riot ensues.

1965 - African Americans hold a mass meeting in Norfolk Virginia and
        demand equal rights and ballots.

1968 - Nine Caravans of poor people arrive in Washington, DC for first
        phase of Poor People's Campaign.  Caravans started from different
        sections of the country on May 2 and picked up demonstrators along
        the way.  In Washington, demonstrators erect a camp called
        Resurrection City on a sixteen-acre site near the Lincoln Monument.

1972 - The San Francisco Giants announce that they are trading Willie Mays
        to the New York Mets.

1981 - Hoyt J. Fuller dies in Atlanta at the age of 57.  He was a literary
        critic and editor of "First World" and "Black World" (formerly
        Negro Digest) magazines.

        Bob Marley, Jamaican-born singer who popularized reggae with his
        group The Wailers, dies of cancer in a Miami hospital at the age of
        36.

        Heavyweight boxing challenger, Gerry Cooney, leaves former champ,
        Ken Norton, on the ropes and unconscious after 54 seconds of the
        first round at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

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        The source for these facts are "Encyclopedia Britannica,
        "InfoBeat," "I, Too, Sing America - The African American
        Book of Days," and independent research by the
        Information Man.
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