*                   Today in Black History - October 4             *

1864 - The National Black Convention meets in Syracuse, New York.

1864 - The New Orleans Tribune, the first African American daily
        newspaper, is founded by Dr. Louis C. Roudanez.  The newspaper,
        published in both English and French, starts as a tri-weekly,
        but soon becomes an influential daily.

1934 - Malvin Gray Johnson joins the ancestors in New York City. His
        deceptively simple paintings, with their warm colors and serene,
        sensuous charm, had earned him a large and loyal group of admirers
        during the Harlem Renaissance.

1935 - Joe Walcott, World Welterweight Boxing Champion during the early
        1900’s, joins the ancestors after being struck and killed by a car.
        He is perhaps the only West Indian (from Barbados), universally
        recognized as a boxing legend.  Walcott stood at five feet, one and
        a half inches, his fighting weight at 142 pounds, basically a midget
        version of Mike Tyson.  His short powerful physique enabled him to
        bob and weave, catching his opponent’s punches on his powerful
        shoulders and his granite-like head.

1937 - Lee Patrick Brown is born in Wewoka, Oklahoma.  He will become
        one of the top-ranking law-enforcement executives in the United
        States, first as Public Safety Commissioner in Atlanta, Georgia,
        then as the first African American police chief in Houston,
        Texas, the second African American police commissioner for
        New York City, and the first African American mayor of Houston.

1943 - H. Rap Brown is born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.  He will become
        a Black nationalist and chairman of the Student Nonviolent
        Coordinating Committee.

1944 - Dancer Pearl Primus makes her Broadway debut at the Belasco
        Theater. She will become widely known for blending the African
        and American dance traditions.

1944 - Patricia Holt is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  She will
        become a singer known as Patti LaBelle and will be a lead with
        the Ordettes, the Bluebells, and LaBelle.  She will eventually
        debut a solo career performing over 90 concerts a year.  She
        will publish her life story, "Don't Block The Blessings:
        Revelations of a Lifetime."

1945 - Clifton Davis is born in Chicago, Illinois.  He will become an
        actor and singer, performing in "That's My Mama," and "Amen"
        on television.  He will also become a minister in the Seventh
        Day Adventist Church.

1966 - Lesotho (Basutoland) gains its independence from Great Britain.

1976 - Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz resigns in the wake of a
        controversy over a joke he had made about Blacks.

1991 - The Harold Washington Library in Chicago, Illinois is dedicated
        in the memory of its beloved former mayor.

1994 - Exiled Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide vows in an
        address to the U.N. General Assembly, to return to Haiti in
        11 days.

1994 - President Clinton welcomes South African President Nelson
        Mandela to the White House.

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