*	       Today in Black History - May 22		      *

1848 - Slavery is abolished on the French island of Martinique.
	Abolition will create a shortage of labor in Martinique given 
	many former slaves preferred not to work in the sugar cane 
	plantations.  To solve the problem, indentured servants will 
	be brought from China and India.

1863 - The War Department establishes the Bureau of Colored Troops and 
	launches an aggressive campaign for the recruitment of African 
	American soldiers.

1940 - Bernard Shaw is born in Chicago, Illinois.  He will become a 
	journalist and the principal Washington anchor for Cable News 
	Network, where he will be widely respected for his coverage of 
	world summit meetings, the historic student demonstrations in 
	Beijing, Presidential primaries and elections, and the Gulf
	War.

1941 - Paul Winfield is born in Los Angeles, California.  He will 
	become an actor and will star in the movies "Tyson," "Breathing 
	Lessons," "Carbon Copy," "Cliffhanger," "Dennis the Menace," 
	"Presumed Innocent," "Sounder," "The Terminator," and "Star 
	Trek 2. He also will be, for many years, the narrator of the
	cable serries, "City Confidential." He will join the ancestors 
	on March 7, 2004, after succumbing to a heart attack.

1948 - Harlem Renaissance poet and author Claude McKay joins the 
	ancestors in Chicago, Illinois at the age of 58.  His novel 
	"Home to Harlem" (1928) became the first best-seller written 
	by an American of African descent.

1959 - Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. becomes the first African American major 
	general in the U.S. Air Force.  In doing so, he improves upon 
	the accomplishment of his father, Davis Sr., who was the first 
	African American general in the U.S. Army.

1961 - The Attorney General orders two hundred additional U.S. Marshals 
	to Montgomery, Alabama.  This is in addition to the four 
	hundred U.S. marshals already dispatched to Montgomery to keep 
	order in the Freedom Rider controversy.

1961 - Ernie K-Doe, Ernest Kador Jr., joins the growing list of "One 
	Hit Wonders" -- recording artists who had only one hit. The 
	song, "Mother-In-Law", is Ernie's one hit -- and a number one 
	tune on the nation's pop music charts. 

1966 - Bill Cosby, star of "I Spy," receives an Emmy for best actor in
	a dramatic series, the first African American in the category.
	He will earn more than four Emmys.

1967 - Langston Hughes, noted poet, joins the ancestors in New York 
	City. He was the author of the poetry collections "The Weary 
	Blues," "Not Without Laughter," "The Way of White Folks," the 
	autobiographies "The Big Sea" and "I Wonder as I Wander, and 
	plays and newspaper series.  Hughes's ashes will be buried at 
	the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem.

1970 - Naomi Campbell is born in London, England.  She will be 
	discovered in a shopping mall when she is 15 years old.  She 
	will become a super model and will open a chain of "Fashion 
	Cafe'" establishments along with models Claudia Schiffer, Elle 
	MacPherson, and Christy Turlington.

1994 - A worldwide trade embargo against Haiti, led by the United 
	States, goes into effect to punish Haiti's military rulers for 
	not reinstating the country's ousted elected leader, 
	Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

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