* Today in Black History - May 22 *
1848 - Slavery is abolished on the French island of Martinique. Abolition
will create a shortage of labor in Martinique given many former
slaves preferred not to work in the sugar cane plantations. To
solve the problem, indentured servants will be brought from China
and India.
1863 - The War Department establishes the Bureau of Colored Troops and
launches an aggressive campaign for the recruitment of African
American soldiers.
1940 - Bernard Shaw is born in Chicago, Illinois. He will become a
journalist and the principal Washington anchor for Cable News
Network, where he will be widely respected for his coverage of
world summit meetings, the historic student demonstrations in
Beijing, Presidential primaries and elections, and the Gulf War.
1941 - Paul Winfield is born in Los Angeles, California. He will become
an actor and will star in the movies "Tyson," "Breathing
Lessons," "Carbon Copy," "Cliffhanger," "Dennis the Menace,"
"Presumed Innocent," "Sounder," "The Terminator," and "Star Trek
2."
1948 - Harlem Renaissance poet and author Claude McKay joins the ancestors
in Chicago, Illinois at the age of 58. His novel "Home to Harlem"
(1928) became the first best-seller written by an American of
African descent.
1959 - Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. becomes the first African American major
general in the U.S. Air Force. In doing so, he improves upon the
accomplishment of his father, Davis Sr., who was the first African
American general in the U.S. Army.
1961 - The Attorney General orders two hundred additional U.S. Marshals to
Montgomery, Alabama. This is in addition to the four hundred U.S.
marshals already dispatched to Montgomery to keep order in the
Freedom Rider controversy.
1961 - Ernie K-Doe, Ernest Kador Jr., joins the growing list of "One Hit
Wonders" -- recording artists who had only one hit. The song,
"Mother-In-Law", is Ernie's one hit -- and a number one tune on
the nation's pop music charts.
1966 - Bill Cosby, star of "I Spy," receives an Emmy for best actor in a
dramatic series, the first African American in the category. He
will earn more than four Emmys.
1967 - Langston Hughes, noted poet, joins the ancestors in New York City.
He was the author of the poetry collections "The Weary Blues,"
"Not Without Laughter," "The Way of White Folks," the
autobiographies "The Big Sea" and "I Wonder as I Wander, and
plays and newspaper series. Hughes's ashes will be buried at the
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem.
1970 - Naomi Campbell is born in London, England. She will be discovered
in a shopping mall when she is 15 years old. She will become a
super model and will open a chain of "Fashion Cafe'"
establishments along with models Claudia Schiffer, Elle
MacPherson, and Christy Turlington.
1994 - A worldwide trade embargo against Haiti, led by the United States,
goes into effect to punish Haiti's military rulers for not
reinstating the country's ousted elected leader, Jean-Bertrand
Aristide.
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