*		 Today in Black History - October 4             *

1864 - The National Black Convention meets in Syracuse, New York.

1864 - The New Orleans Tribune, the first African American daily 
	newspaper, is founded by Dr. Louis C. Roudanez. The 
	newspaper, published in both English and French, starts 
	as a tri-weekly, but soon becomes an influential daily.

1934 - Malvin Gray Johnson joins the ancestors in New York City.
	His deceptively simple paintings, with their warm colors
	and serene, sensuous charm, had earned him a large and 
	loyal group of admirers during the Harlem Renaissance. 

1935 - Joe Walcott, World Welterweight Boxing Champion during 
	the early 1900’s, joins the ancestors after being struck
	and killed by a car. He is perhaps the only West Indian 
	(from Barbados), universally recognized as a boxing 
	legend.  Walcott stood at five feet, one and a half 
	inches, his fighting weight at 142 pounds, basically a 
	midget version of Mike Tyson. His short powerful 
	physique enabled him to bob and weave, catching his 
	opponent’s punches on his powerful shoulders and his 
	granite-like head. 

1937 - Lee Patrick Brown is born in Wewoka, Oklahoma. He will 
	become one of the top-ranking law-enforcement executives
	in the United States, first as Public Safety Commissioner
	in Atlanta, Georgia, the second African American police 
	commissioner for New York City, and the first African 
	American mayor of Houston. He will be reelected twice to 
	serve the maximum of three terms from 1998 to 2004.

1943 - Hubert Gerold Brown is born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.  
	He will be better known as H. Rap Brown, become a Black 
	nationalist and chairman of the Student Nonviolent 
	Coordinating Committee in the 1960s, and later the 
	Justice Minister of the Black Panther Party. He will be
	most famous for his proclamation during that period that 
	"violence is as American as cherry pie", as well as once 
	stating that "If America don't come around, we're gonna 
	burn it down". He is also known for his autobiography "Die 
	Nigger Die!". He will spend five years (1971-1976) in 
	New York's Attica Prison after a robbery conviction. While 
	in prison, he will convert to Islam and change his name to 
	Jamil Abdullah al-Amin. After his release, he will open a 
	grocery store in Atlanta, Georgia and become a Muslim 
	spiritual leader and community activist, preaching against 
	drugs and gambling in Atlanta's West End neighborhood. He 
        will be sentenced to life in prison, without the possibility of 
	parole, for the 2000 shooting of two Fulton County Sheriff's 
	deputies, one of whom joins the ancestors.

1944 - Dancer Pearl Primus makes her Broadway debut at the 
	Belasco Theater. She will become widely known for 
	blending the African and American dance traditions. 

1944 - Patricia Holt is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  She
	will become a singer known as Patti LaBelle and will be
	a lead with the Ordettes, the Bluebells, and LaBelle.  
	She will eventually debut a solo career performing over
	90 concerts a year. She will publish her life story, 
	"Don't Block The Blessings: Revelations of a Lifetime."
  
1945 - Clifton Davis is born in Chicago, Illinois. He will 
	become an actor and singer, performing in "That's My 
	Mama," and "Amen" on television. He will also become a
	minister in the Seventh Day Adventist Church.

1966 - Lesotho (Basutoland) gains its independence from Great 
	Britain.

1976 - Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz resigns in the wake 
	of a controversy over a joke he had made about Blacks. 

1991 - The Harold Washington Library in Chicago, Illinois is 
	dedicated in the memory of its beloved former mayor.

1994 - Exiled Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide vows in
	an address to the U.N. General Assembly, to return to 
	Haiti in 11 days.

1994 - President Clinton welcomes South African President Nelson
	Mandela to the White House.

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