*               Today in Black History - April 27               *

1883 - Hubert Henry Harrison, is born in St. Croix, Virgin Islands. He will
        become, by the 1920s, one of the nation's most prominent atheists.
        Harrison will recognize the connection between racism and religion,
        and point this out quite bluntly.  The Bible was a slave master's
        book in Harrison's eyes, which not only sanctioned the keeping of
        slaves, but even gave advice on their handling.  He will state that
        any African American person who accepts Christianity was either
        ignorant or crazy.  He also will address Islam by stating that the
        slave masters may have been largely Christian, but many of the slave
        traders were Muslims, apparently not deterred by their faith.

1903 - The publication of W.E.B. DuBois's "The Souls of Black Folk"
        crystallizes opposition to Booker T. Washington's program of social
        and political subordination.

1903 - Maggie L. Walker is named president of Richmond's St. Luke Penny Bank
        and Trust Company and becomes the first woman to head a bank.

1903 - The U.S. Supreme Court upholds clauses in the Alabama state constitution
        which disfranchises African Americans.

1927 - Coretta Scott is born in Marion, Alabama. She will marry Martin Luther
        King, Jr. in 1953 and be an integral part of his civil rights
        activities. After his assassination in 1968, she will continue her
        civil rights activities, founding the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center
        for Nonviolent Change in Atlanta, Georgia.

1944 - Rhythm-and-blues singer Cuba Gooding is born.

1949 - Rhythm-and-blues singer Herbie Murrell (The Stylistics) is born.

1960 - Togo achieves its independence from France.  Sylvanus Olymplo serves as
        its first prime minister.

1961 - Sierra Leone obtains its independence from Great Britain with Dr. Milton
        Margai as its first prime minister.

1961 - Kwame Nkrumah, African statesman and the first president of Ghana, joins
        the ancestors in exile, in Conarky, Guinea at the age of 62.

1977 - Artist Charles Alston joins the ancestors in New York City. After studying
        at Columbia University and Pratt Institute, he had traveled to Europe and
        the Caribbean before executing murals for Harlem Hospital and Golden State
        Mutual Life Insurance Company in Los Angeles.  A recipient of the National
        Academy of Design Award, he also received the first-place award of the
        Atlanta University Collection's 1942 show for his gouache "Farm Boy."
        His best known works are "Family" and "Walking." Among his other notable
        works are "School Girl," "Frederick Douglass," and "Nobody Knows."

1994 - The first "Freedom Day" takes place in South Africa.

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