* Today in Black History - May 29 *
1910 - Ralph Metcalfe is born in Atlanta, Georgia. He will become a world
record holder in the 100-yard and 200-yard dashes and win a bronze
medal in the 1932 Olympic Games and gold and silver medals in the
1936 Games. He will also become a four-term congressman
representing Illinois's 1st District.
1938 - Ronald Milner is born in Detroit, Michigan. He will become trained as
a writer and will exhibit his skills as a playwright when he
produces his first play , "Who's Got His Own" on Broadway in 1966.
In 1969, he will help start "The Black Theater Movement," which
will promote plays in which African Americans could represent their
lives on stage. His works will include "What The Wine-Sellers
Buy," "Jazz Set," "Don't Get God Started," and "Checkmates."
1944 - Maurice Bishop is born in Aruba and will be raised in Grenada. While
attending college in England during the early 1960s, he will become
involved in the Black Power Movement and be heavily influenced by
Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr. Kwame Nkrumah, and Walter
Rodney, the Guyanese activist. After returning to Grenada in 1970,
he will cofound a political organization, "Movement for Assemblies
of the People." This organization will later merge with another
political group, forming the "New Jewel Movement." After constant
conflict with, and harassment by, Grenada's ruling regime, Bishop
will become the minority leader in the Grenadian government in
1976. In 1979, Bishop will become the Prime Minister after leading
a bloodless coup. He will develop close ties with Castro's Cuba and
will obtain government funding from Cuba and the Soviet Union.
These relationships will cause the United States to impose
sanctions against Grenada which led to internal turmoil in the
Grenadian ruling party. After a party split, Bishop and his primary
supporters will be executed in October of 1983. Using this event as
an excuse to involve themselves in the politics of the region, the
United States will invade Grenada and keep a "peacekeeping" mission
on the island until 1985.
1950 - Maureen "Rebbie" Jackson is born in Gary, Indiana. Rebbie will make
her professional debut at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas with her
siblings, the Jackson's. In the late 70s, she will begin to
consider a solo career. Artists such as Betty Wright and Wanda
Hutchinson of the Emotions will mentor her, but it will be her
brother Michael who pens and produces her very first hit,
"Centipede." As the title track of Rebbie's 1984 debut,
"Centipede," introduces the pop world to a Jackson most never knew
existed.
1956 - La Toya Jackson is born in Gary, Indiana. She will become a singer
and one of the most controversial members of the Jackson family.
She will be referred to as "The Rebel With A Cause." She will cause
a big stir, when she poses for Playboy Magazine. Her book, "La
Toya: Growing Up in the Jackson Family," will be on the New York
Times Best Seller List for nine weeks. She will attract full
capacity audiences in her performances all over the world.
1962 - Buck (John) O'Neil becomes the first African American coach in major-
league baseball. He accepts the job with the Chicago Cubs. O'Neil
had previously been a scout with the Cubs organization. He had
been a notable first baseman in Black baseball.
1965 - Ralph Boston sets a world record in the broad jump at 27 feet, 4-3/4
inches, at a meet held in Modesto, California.
1969 - Artist and art educator James v. Herring joins the ancestors in
Washington, DC. Herring organized the first American art gallery
to be directed and controlled by African Americans on the Howard
University campus in 1930, founded and directed the university's
art department and, with Alonzo Aden, opened the famed Barnett-Aden
Gallery in Washington, DC, in 1943.
1973 - Tom Bradley is elected the first African American mayor of Los
Angeles, California. Winning after a bitter defeat four years
earlier by incumbent mayor Sam Yorty, Bradley, a Texas native and
former Los Angeles Police Department veteran, will serve an
unprecedented five terms.
1980 - Vernon E. Jordan Jr., President of the National Urban League, is
critically injured in an attempted assassination in Fort Wayne,
Indiana.
1999 - Olusegun Obasanjo becomes Nigeria's first civilian president in 15
years, after a series of military regimes.
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