*	             Today in Black History - May 14                  *  

1867 - A riot occurs in Mobile, Alabama, after an African American mass 
	meeting.  One African American and one white are killed. 

1885 - Erskine Henderson wins the Kentucky Derby riding Joe Cotton. The
	horse's trainer is another African-American, Alex Perry.

1897 - Sidney Joseph Bechet is born in New Orleans, Louisiana. A member of 
	both Duke Ellington's and Noble Sissle's orchestras, Bechet moved to 
	France and there achieved the greatest success of his career. He 
             had been the greatest jazz soloist of the 1920s along with Louis 
	Armstrong. 

1898 - Arthur James 'Zutty' Singleton is born in Bunkie, Louisiana. He will
	become a percussion musician and bandleader. He will start as a 
	drummer at the age of 15 and will work in a variety of bands until he
	forms his own in 1920. He will eventually make his way to Chicago 
             and will become part of the "Chicago School of Jazz." He will be 
             primarily remembered for introducing sock cymbals and wire brushes 
             as percussion accessories.  These innovations will place him in 
             demand as an accompanist for jazz greats like Louis Armstrong, 
             Fats Waller, Dizzy Gillespie, Jelly Roll Morton, and Charlie Parker. He 
             will perform primarily in New York City from 1953 until 1970.  He will 
             join the ancestors in 1975.

1906 - Ngwazi Hastings Kamuzu Banda is born near Kasungu, British Central 
	African Protectorate.  Even though his official birthdate is cited
	as 1906, many sources show his birth date as 1898. He will become
	Malawi's first prime minister after independence in 1963.  In 1966,
	he will elected Malawi's president in 1966.  He will lead Malawi 
	until 1994.  He will join the ancestors in Johannesburg, South 
	Africa in 1997.

1913 - Clara Stanton Jones is born in St. Louis, Missouri.  She will become 
	the first African American director of the Detroit Public Library 
	and the first African American president of the American Library 
	Association.

1943 - Tania J. Leon is born in Havana, Cuba. She will become a pianist, 
	composer, and orchestral conductor. Her music style will encompass
	Afro-Cuban rhythm and elements of jazz and gospel. She will emigrate
	to the United States in 1967 and in 1969 will join the Dance Theater
	of Harlem as a pianist. She will later become the artistic director of 
	the troupe. Some her compositions for the Dance Theater of Harlem 
             will include "Tones," "Beloved," and "Dougla." She will debut as a 
	conductor in 1971 and starting in 1980 when she leaves the Dance 
	Theater of Harlem, will serve as guest conductor and composer with 
	orchestras in the United States and Europe. In 1993, she will 
             become an advisor to the New York Philharmonic conductor, Kurt 
             Masur on contemporary music.

1959 - Soprano saxophonist Sidney Joseph Bechet joins the ancestors in Paris,
	France on his sixty second birthday after succumbing to cancer.  

1961 - A bus, with the first group of Freedom Riders, is bombed and burned 
	by segregationists outside Anniston, Alabama.  The group is attacked
	in Anniston and Birmingham.

1963 - Twenty-year-old Arthur Ashe becomes the first African American to 
	make the U.S. Davis Cup tennis team.

1966 - Georgia Douglas Johnson joins the ancestors in Washington, DC at the 
	age of 88. She was a poet and playwright. While she never lived in 
	Harlem, she is associated with the Harlem Renaissance because her 
             home was a regular oasis for many of the writers of that literary 
             movement.  Her home hosted writer workshops and discussion 
             groups while also being a place of lodging for those writers when 
             they visited Washington, DC. Her own poetry and plays were very 
             popular with African American audiences during the 1920s.

1969 - John B. McLendon becomes the first African American coach in the ABA
	when he signs a two-year contract with the Denver Nuggets.

1970 - Two students are killed by police officers in a major racial 
	disturbance at Jackson State University in Jackson, Mississippi.

1986 - Reggie Jackson hits his 537th home run passing Mickey Mantle into 6th
	place of all time home run hitters.

1989 - Kirby Puckett becomes the first professional baseball player since 
	1948 to hit 6 consecutive doubles.

1995 - Myrlie Evers-Williams (widow of Medgar Evers) is sworn in to head the 
	NAACP, pledging to lead the civil rights group away from its recent 
	troubles and restore it as a political and social force. 

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