* Today in Black History - April 4 *
1915 - McKinley Morganfield is born in Rolling Fork, Mississippi. He
will be discovered in 1941 by two music archivists from the
Library of Congress, traveling the back roads of Mississippi
looking for the legendary Robert Johnson. They recorded two
of Morganfield's songs and lit a fire in the ambitious young
man. He will leave Mississippi for Chicago two years later
to become a blues singer better known as "Muddy Waters." He
will join the ancestors on April 30, 1983 in Chicago,
Illinois.
1928 - Marguerite Ann Johnson is born in St. Louis, Missouri. She
will become the first African American streetcar conductor
in San Francisco, a dancer, nightclub singer, editor, and
teacher of music and drama in Ghana and professor of
American Studies at Wake Forest University, better known as
Maya Angelou. She will also become noted as the author of a
multi-volume autobiographical series, as well as several
volumes of poetry. In 1993, She will recite her poem "On the
Pulse of Morning" at the inauguration of President Bill
Clinton, becoming the first poet to make an inaugural
recitation since Robert Frost at John F. Kennedy's
inauguration in 1961. Her recitation will result in more fame
and recognition for her previous works, and broaden her
appeal "across racial, economic, and educational boundaries".
The recording of the poem will be awarded a Grammy Award.
1938 - Vera Mae Smart Grosvenor, who will become the author of the
popular and influential cookbook "Vibration Cooking"(1970),
is born in Fairfax, South Carolina.
1939 - Hugh Masekela is born in South Africa. He will become a
musician and band leader. He will be a major force in South
African Jazz, and will become known throughout the world.
1942 - Richard Parsons is born in New York City. In 1990, he will
be named chief executive officer of Dime Savings Bank, the
first African American CEO of a large, non-minority U.S.
savings institution.
1959 - The Federation of Mali is formed, consisting of Senegal & the
territory of Mali in the French Sudan. It will dissolve in
1960.
1960 - Senegal and Mali gain separate independence.
1968 - Acknowledged leader of the U.S. civil rights movement, Martin
Luther King, Jr. joins the ancestors after being
assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. His death will result
in a national day of mourning and the postponement of the
beginning of the baseball season. Over 30,000 people will
form a funeral procession behind his coffin, pulled by two
Georgia mules. King's death will also set off racially
motivated civil disturbances in 160 cities leaving 82 people
dead and causing $ 69 million in property damage. President
Lyndon B. Johnson declares Sunday, April 6, a national day
of mourning and orders all U.S. flags on government
buildings in all U.S. territories and possessions to fly at
half-mast.
1972 - Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., former congressman and civil rights
leader, joins the ancestors in Miami, Florida at the age of
63.
1974 - Hank Aaron ties the baseball career home run record set by
Babe Ruth, when he hits his 714th home run in Cincinnati,
Ohio.
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