* Today in Black History - April 26 *
1785 - John James Audubon is born in Les Cayes, Saint Dominique
(later Haiti), to an African Caribbean mother and a French
father. He will display an early affinity for bird
specimens and drawing in France, later emigrating to the
United States, where he will marry a plantation owner's
daughter and paint the ground-breaking collection "The
Birds of America."
1886 - William Levi Dawson is born in Albany, Georgia. A graduate
of Fisk University, he will move to Chicago, serve in the
365th Infantry in World War I, become an attorney and
initially be involved in Republican politics upon his
return to the city after the war. Elected to his first
term in the United States Congress in 1942, he will serve
27 years in the House, where he will become the first
African American representative to chair a committee of
Congress, the Committee on Expenditures in Executive
Departments, in 1949.
1964 - The African nations of Tanganyika and Zanzibar merge to
form Tanzania.
1968 - Students seize the administration building at Ohio State.
1984 - Jazz musician great William Allen "Count" Basie, dies in
Hollywood, Florida at the age of 77.
1991 - Maryann Bishop Coffey is named the first woman and the
first African American co-chair of the National Conference
of Christians and Jews.
1992 - "Jelly's Last Jam" opens at Virginia theater on Broadway.
Gregory Hines will portray the great jazz composer Jelly
Roll Morton and will receive a Tony award as best actor in
a musical in that role.
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The source for these facts are "Encyclopedia Britannica,
"InfoBeat," "I, Too, Sing America - The African American
Book of Days," and independent research by the
Information Man.
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