*                Today in Black History - October 24              *

1892 - 25,000 African American workers strike in New Orleans,
        Louisiana.  This is the first major job stoppage in U.S.
        labor history by African Americans.

1923 - The U.S. Department of Labor issues a report stating that
        approximately 500,000 African Americans had left the South
        in the preceding twelve months.

1935 - Langston Hughes's play "Mulatto" opens on Broadway.  It will
        have the longest run of any play by an African American
        until Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun."

1935 - Italy invades Ethiopia. African Americans hold mass meetings
        of protest and raise funds for the Ethiopian defenders.

1936 - The Boston Chronicle blasts the soon-to-be-released movie
        "The Big Broadcast" of 1937 for featuring a white pianist
        who appears in the movie while Teddy Wilson actually plays
        the music: "The form of racial discrimination and
        falsification of acts...is frequently duplicated by many
        whites in their daily dealings with Negroes...Negro farm
        hands and laborers in other fields of industry produce
        billions of dollars of wealth, but the white landowners and
        sweat shop operators get all the profit."

1942 - In recognition of the influence of so-called race music,
        Billboard magazine creates its first ratings chart devoted
        to African American music, The Harlem Hit Parade.  The
        number-one record is "Take It & Git" by Andy Kirk and His
        Twelve Clouds of Joy, featuring Mary Lou Williams on piano.

1948 - Frizzel Gray is born in Baltimore, Maryland.  Better known as
        Kweisi Mfume, an adopted African name that means "Conquering
        Son of Kings," he will be elected a congressman from
        Maryland's 7th District in 1986.   He will later leave the
        Congress to become the head of the NAACP.

1964 - Kenneth David Kuanda becomes President of Zambia as Zambia
        (Northern Rhodesia) gains independence from Great Britain.

1972 - Jack Roosevelt "Jackie" Robinson joins the ancestors at the
        age of 53 in Stamford, Connecticut.

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