*		   Today in Black History - May 1		      *

1863 - The Confederate congress passes a resolution which brands 
	African American troops and their officers criminals. The 
	resolution, in effect, dooms captured African American 
	soldiers to death or slavery.

1866 - White Democrats and police attack freedmen and their white 
	allies in Memphis, Tennessee.  Forty-six African Americans 
	and two white liberals are killed.  More than seventy are 
	wounded.  Ninety homes, twelve schools and four churches 
	are burned.

1867 - Reconstruction of the South begins with the registering of 
	African American and white voters in the South.  Gen. 
	Philip H. Sheridan orders the registration to begin in 
	Louisiana on May 1 and to continue until June 30.  
	Registration will begin in Arkansas in May.  Other states 
	follow in June and July. By the end of October, 1,363,000 
	citizens had registered in the South, including 700,000 
	African Americans.  African American voters constitute a 
	majority in five states: Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, 
	Mississippi and South Carolina.

1884 - Moses Fleetwood Walker becomes the first African American 
	in the Major Leagues when he plays for the Toledo Blue 
	Stockings in the American Association.  A catcher, he goes 
	0-for-3 in his debut, allowing 2 passed balls and 
	committing 4 errors, as his team bows to Louisville 5-1. He 
	will do better in 41 subsequent games before injuries force 
	Toledo to release him in late September. In July he will be 
	joined by his brother Welday, an outfielder. Racial bigotry 
	will prevent his return to major league ball.  No other 
	African American player will appear in a major league 
	uniform until Jackie Robinson in 1947. 

1901 - Sterling Allen Brown is born in Washington, DC.  He will become
	a poet, literary critic, editor of "The Negro in American 
	Fiction" and "Negro Poetry and Drama," and the coeditor of the
	anthology, "The Negro Caravan."

1941 - A. Philip Randolph issues a call for 100,000 African Americans
	to march on Washington, DC, to protest armed forces and 
	defense industry discrimination.  In response, President 
	Franklin D. Roosevelt, who attempted to persuade Randolph and 
	others to cancel the demonstration, will issue Executive Order 
	8802, to ban federal discrimination, before Randolph finally 
	yields.

1946 - Mrs. Emma Clarissa Clement is named "American Mother of the 
	Year" by the Golden Rule Foundation.

1948 - Glenn H. Taylor, U.S. Senator from Idaho and Vice-presidential
	candidate of the Progressive party, is arrested in Birmingham,
	Alabama, for trying to enter a meeting through a door marked "for 
	Negroes."

1950 - Gwendolyn Brooks becomes the first African American to win a
	Pulitzer Prize for her book of poetry "Annie Allen."

1975 - A commemorative stamp of poet Paul Laurence Dunbar is issued by
	the U.S. Postal Service as part of its American Arts series.

1981 - Dr. Clarence A. Bacote, historian and political scientist, joins
	the ancestors in Atlanta, Georgia at the age of 75.

1990 - Robert Guillaume, former star of the Benson TV series, premieres 
	in the title role in "Phantom of the Opera" at the Music Center
	in Los Angeles.  Guillaume continues the role that had been 
	played to critical acclaim by the English star, Michael Crawford.

1991 - Rickey Henderson steals his 939th base in the Oakland A's game 
	against the New York Yankees, breaking Lou Brock's major league
	record.

1995 - Charges that Qubilah Shabazz, the daughter of Malcolm X, had 
	plotted to murder Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan are 
	dropped as jury selection for her trial is about to begin in 
	Minneapolis, Minnesota.

1998 - Eldridge Cleaver, the fiery Black Panther leader who later 
	renounced his past and became a Republican, joins the ancestors
	in Pomona, California, at age 62. 

1998 - Former Rwandan Prime Minister Jean Kambanda, pleads guilty to 
	charges stemming from the 1994 genocide of more than 500,000 
	Tutsis.

2000 - Bobby Eggleston is sworn in as the new sheriff of Drew County, 
	Arkansas. He becomes the first African American sheriff in Arkansas
	since Reconstruction.

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