*               Today in Black History - April 22               *

1526 - The first recorded slave revolt occurs in a settlement of 
	some five hundred Spaniards and one hundred slaves, located 
	on the Pedee River in what is now South Carolina.

1882 - Benjamin Griffith Brawley is born in Columbia, South 
	Carolina. He will become a prolific author and educator, 
	serving as a professor of English at Morehouse, Howard, 
	and Shaw universities. He will also serve as dean of 
	Morehouse.  His books, among them "A Short History of the 
	American Negro" and "A New Survey of English Literature," 
	will be landmark texts recommended at several colleges. He 
	will join the ancestors in 1939.

1922 - Charles Mingus is born in Nogales, Arizona.  Raised in Watts,
	California, he will play double bass with Charlie Parker, 
	Duke Ellington, and Bud Powell before becoming a bandleader 
	and composer in his own right.  Although not as popular as 
	Miles Davis or Ellington, Mingus, who also will play piano,
	will be considered one of the principal forces in modern 
	jazz. He will join the ancestors in 1979 succumbing to Lou 
	Gehrig's disease.

1950 - Charles Hamilton Houston, architect of the NAACP legal
	campaign, joins the ancestors in Washington, DC at the age 
	of 54.

1964 - A Trinity College student occupies the school administration
	building to protest campus bias.

1964 - New York police arrest 294 civil rights demonstrators at the 
	opening of the World Fair.

1970 - Yale University students protest in support of the Black
	Panthers.

1981 - The Joint Center for Political Studies reports that 2991 
	African Americans held elective offices in 45 states and 
	the District of Columbia, compared with 2621 in April, 1973,
	and 1185 in 1969.   The Center reports 108 African American 
	mayors. Michigan had the largest number of African American 
	elected officials (194), followed by Mississippi (191).

1981 - Brailsford Reese Brazeal, economist and former dean of 
	Morehouse College, joins the ancestors in Atlanta, Georgia, 
	at the age of 76.

1989 - Huey Newton, black activist and co-founder of the Black 
	Panther Party, joins the ancestors, after being killed at 
	age 47.

2000 - The Rev. R.F. Jenkins, a pastor active in civil-rights 
	organizations, who led his church for 25 years, joins the
	ancestors in Omaha, Nebraska, after suffering a heart attack 
	at the age of 87. He was the first African American Lutheran 
	Church Missouri Synod minister in the Nebraska district. He 
	and his wife, Beatrice, had come to Omaha in 1954 after 
	serving pastorates in Alabama and North Carolina. He had 
	also previously served eight years as a faculty member at 
	Alabama Lutheran College. He had returned to his hometown
             of Selma, Alabama, to take part in a civil-rights march in 
	1965. He served on the Omaha School District board from
             1970 to 1976, and retired from the pulpit in 1979. 

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