* Today in Black History - April 28 *
1910 - Martin Morua Delgado joins the ancestors in Havana, Cuba. He had
been a labor and political activist, statesman, journalist and
author. He had been a leading opponent of slavery in Cuba and
after emancipation, a leading proponent for racial equality. He
also was active in the struggle for Cuban independence from Spain.
Cuba will celebrate the centennial of his birth in 1956.
1911 - Mario Bauza is born in Havana, Cuba. He will become a
professional trumpet player, bandleader and arranger. He will be
a leading player in the creation of Afro-Cuban jazz. While in
Cuba, he will be primarily a classical musician, playing for the
Havana Philharmonic Orchestra. He will leave Cuba for New York
City in 1930 and find himself working in mostly jazz venues. He
will play with Noble Sissle, Chick Webb (musical director), Don
Redman, and Cab Calloway. While working with Chick Webb, he will
convince Webb to hire the young Ella Fitzgerald as a vocalist for
the band. While collaborating with these talents, he will
integrate Afro-Latin influence into the music whenever possible.
He will be active in the jazz musical scene until the last year
of his life. He will join the ancestors on July 11, 1993.
1924 - Kenneth Kuanda is born in Lubwe, Northern Rhodesia (Northern
Rhodesia will eventually become the country of Zambia). He will
become president of Zambia from its day of independence until
1991. He will begin his political career with the Northern
Rhodesia African Congress, which will become the African National
Congress. Like most African politicians who called for
independence from colonial rule, he will be imprisoned multiple
times. After his release from prison in 1960, he will continue
to be active and will promote many activities of civil
disobedience. Under his leadership, the colonial administration
will relent and the British will grant Zambia its independence on
October 24, 1964.
1934 - Charles Patton joins the ancestors in Indianola, Mississippi. He
was a bluesman who is considered to be the creator of the Delta
variation of the blues. His recordings between 1929 and 1934
will contribute to the national influence of the Mississippi
Delta style on the blues.
1935 - Akin Euba is born in Lagos, Nigeria. He will become a classical
composer whose work will integrate European and Yoruba influences
into his compositions. His music will be introduced to the world
at the 1972 Olympics in Munich, Germany. After receiving his
Ph.D. in 1974, he will become a music educator and continue to
create his unique African musical art form. He will eventually
become a professor of African music at the University of
Pittsburgh.
1941 - In a famous Jim Crow railroad case brought by congressman Arthur
W. Mitchell, the Supreme Court rules that separate facilities
must be substantially equal.
1950 - Willie Colon in born in the Bronx in New York City. He will begin
his musical career, while a teenager, creating recordings that
will emphasize his Afro-Puerto Rican heritage in the form of
salsa music. His music will integrate the influence of Puerto
Rican life in New York City with the African influence on the
Puerto Rican experience. He will create and produce over thirty
recordings and be nominated for at least five Grammy awards in
Latin music.
1957 - W. Robert Ming, a Chicago lawyer, is elected chairman of the
American Veterans Committee. He is the first African American to
head a major national veterans organization.
1967 - Muhammad Ali refuses induction into the U.S. Army and is stripped
of his boxing titles by the World Boxing Association and the New
York Athletic Association.
1983 - Two African American women, Alice Walker and Gloria Naylor, win
prestigious American Book Awards for fiction. Alice Walker's
novel "The Color Purple" will be dramatized as a theatrical movie
starring Whoopi Goldberg, Danny Glover, and Oprah Winfrey.
Naylor's first novel, "The Women of Brewster Place," will be made
into a made-for-television movie and series starring Oprah
Winfrey, Jackee', and Paula Kelly.
1990 - Clifton Reginald Wharton, Sr. joins the ancestors in Phoenix,
Arizona. He was an attorney and was the first African American to
enter the U.S. Foreign Service and the first African American to
become a United States Ambassador to a European country
(Norway-1961).
1991 - Former CORE director and North Carolina judge Floyd Bixley
McKissick joins the ancestors in North Carolina at the age of 69.
He led CORE from 1963 to 1966 during its transformation to a more
militant civil rights organization.
1997 - Ann Lane Petry joins the ancestors in Old Saybrook, Connecticut.
She was a leading African American novelist and was known for her
works, "The Street," "Country Place," "The Narrows," "Harriet
Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad," "Tituba of Salem
Village," "The Drugstore Cat," and "Legends of the Saints."
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