*               Today in Black History - April 21               *

1878 - The ship Azor leaves Charleston, South Carolina, on its first
        trip, carrying 209 African Americans bound for Liberia.

1892 - African American Longshoremen strike for higher wages in St.
        Louis, Missouri.

1900 - Dumarsais Estime' is born in Verrettes, Artibonite, Haiti. He
        will become president of Haiti in 1946 and will be regarded
        as a progressive leader and statesman.  He will join the
        ancestors in New York City in 1953.

1938 - The Harlem Suitcase Theatre opens with Langston Hughes's play
        "Don't You Want to be Free?" The play's star is a young Robert
        Earl Jones, father of James Earl Jones.

1940 - Souleymane Cisse' is born in Bamako, Mali.  He will become a
        filmmaker, graduating from the State Institute of Cinema in
        Moscow in 1969.  He will become one of the most popular
        filmmakers in Africa.

1966 - Milton Olive, Jr. becomes the first African American to win the
        Congressional Medal of Honor for bravery during the Vietnam War.
        He will be honored for saving the lives of his fellow soldiers
        by falling on a live grenade while participating in a search-
        and-destroy mission near Phu Coung.

1965 - Pedro Albizu Campos joins the ancestors at the age of 71 in San
        Juan, Puerto Rico.  Campos was a Puerto Rican of African descent
        who advocated Puerto Rico's independence and condemned United
        States imperialism and the 1898 invasion and occupation of
        Puerto Rico.  Some Puerto Ricans refer to him as "Don Pedro,"
        and one of the fathers of Puerto Rican national identity.

1966 - His Imperial Majesty, Haile Selassie visits Kingston, Jamaica.

1971 - Francois Duvalier, known as "Papa Doc," joins the ancestors in
        Port-au-Prince, Haiti at the age of 64.  He had been president-
        for-life of Haiti from 1957 to 1971. He will be succeeded in
        power by his son, Jean-Claude Duvalier.

1974 - By winning the Monsanto Open in Pensacola, Florida, Lee Elder
        becomes the first African American professional golfer to
        qualify for the Masters Tournament. It will be one of four PGA
        tour victories for the Dallas, Texas, native, including the
        Houston Open in 1976 and the Greater Milwaukee Open and
        Westchester Classic in 1978. Elder's career earnings of $2
        million will place him among the top three African American
        golfers, along with Calvin Peete ($2.3 million and 12 PGA
        tournament victories) and Charlie Sifford ($1 million).

2003 - Nina Simone, "High Priestess of Soul", joins the ancestors in
        Carry-le-Rouet (South of France) at the age of 70.  As she
        wished, her ashes will be spread in different African countries.
        She gained fame in the 1960s for her civil rights songs.

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