* Today in Black History - April 7 *
1712 - A slave uprising in New York City results in the death of nine
whites. This is one of the first major revolt of African
slaves in the American colonies. After the militia arrives,
the uprising will be suppressed. As a result of the action,
twenty one slaves will be executed and six others will
commit suicide.
1867 - Johnson C. Smith University is founded in Charlotte, North
Carolina.
1872 - William Monroe Trotter is born in Chillicothe, Ohio. Editor of
the Boston "Guardian," he will also be a militant civil rights
activist and adversary of Booker T. Washington and his
moderate politics.
1915 - Eleanor Fagan is born in East Baltimore, Maryland. She will
become a jazz singer who will influence the course of American
popular singing, better known as Billie Holiday or "Lady Day."
She will be best known for her songs, "Strange Fruit," "Lover
Man," and "God Bless the Child." Although she will enjoy
limited popular appeal during her lifetime, her impact on other
singers will be profound. Troubled in life by addiction,
Holiday will join the ancestors as a result of drug and alcohol
abuse in 1959.
1922 - Ramon "Mongo" Santamaria is born in Havana, Cuba. He will drop
out of school to become a professional musician, playing gigs
at the legendary Tropicana Club in Havana. In 1950 Santamaria
will move to New York, where he will hook up with such Latin
jazz greats as Perez Prado, Tito Puente and Cal Tjader. In
1963 Santamaria will score his first Top 10 hit with the
single "Watermelon Man," written by then band mate Herbie
Hancock. Santamaria will perform and record steadily
throughout the '60s, '70s, '80s and '90s. In 1977, he will be
awarded a Grammy for his album "Amancer." In 1999 Rhino
Records will release a double-CD retrospective of Santamaria's
music, The Mongo Santamaria Anthology 1958-1995, culling his
greatest work during those five decades. He will be considered
one of the most influential percussionists of his generation.
He will join the ancestors in Miami, Florida on February 1,
2003.
1934 - William Monroe Trotter joins the ancestors in Boston, Massachusetts
at the age of sixty-two.
1938 - Trumpeter Frederick Dewayne Hubbard is born in Indianapolis,
Indiana. From a musical family, Hubbard will play four
instruments in his youth and will later play with "Slide"
Hampton, Quincy Jones, and Art Blakey. A leader of his own
band since the 1960's, he will record the noteworthy albums
"Red Clay," "First Light," and the Grammy Award-winning
"Straight Life."
1940 - The first U.S. stamp ever to honor an African American is
issued bearing the likeness of Booker T. Washington. His
likeness is on a 10-cent stamp.
1954 - Tony Dorsett is born in Rochester, Pennsylvania. He will become
a star football player at the University of Pittsburgh, where he
will win the Heisman Trophy in 1976. He will then become the
number one pick in the 1977 NFL draft by the Dallas Cowboys.
He will play in two Super Bowls, five NFC championship games,
four Pro Bowls, will be All-NFL in 1981, and NFC rushing
champion in 1982. His career totals include 12,739 yards
rushing, 398 receptions for 3,544 yards, 16,326 combined net
yards, 90 touchdowns, and a record 99 yard run for a touchdown
against the Minnesota Vikings in 1983. He will end his career
with the 1988 Denver Broncos. He will be enshrined in the NFL
Hall of Fame in 1994.
1994 - Civil war erupts in Rwanda, a day after a mysterious plane crash
claims the lives of the presidents of Rwanda and Burundi. In
the months that follow, hundreds of thousands of minority Tutsi
and Hutu intellectuals will be slaughtered.
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