* Today in Black History - April 28 *
1910 - Martin Morua Delgado joins the ancestors in Havana, Cuba. He had
been a labor and political activist, statesman, journalist and
author. He had been a leading opponent of slavery in Cuba and
after emancipation, a leading proponent for racial equality. He
also was active in the struggle for Cuban independence from Spain.
Cuba will celebrate the centennial of his birth in 1956.
1911 - Mario Bauza is born in Havana, Cuba. He will become a professional
trumpet player, bandleader and arranger. He will be a leading
player in the creation of Afro-Cuban jazz. While in Cuba, he will
be primarily a classical musician, playing for the Havana
Philharmonic Orchestra. He will leave Cuba for New York City in
1930 and find himself working in mostly jazz venues. He will
play with Noble Sissle, Chick Webb (musical director), Don Redman,
and Cab Calloway. While working with Chick Webb, he will convince
Webb to hire the young Ella Fitzgerald as a vocalist for the band.
While collaborating with these talents, he will integrate Afro-Latin
influence into the music whenever possible. He will be active in
the jazz musical scene until the last year of his life. He will
join the ancestors on July 11, 1993.
1924 - Kenneth Kuanda is born in Lubwe, Northern Rhodesia (Northern
Rhodesia will eventually become the country of Zambia). He will
become president of Zambia from its day of independence until 1991.
He will begin his political career with the Northern Rhodesia
African Congress, which will become the Africn National Congress.
Like most African politicians who called for independence from
colonial rule, he will be imprisoned multiple times. After his
release from prison in 1960, he will continue to be active and will
promote many activities of civil disobedience. Under his leadership,
the colonial administration will relent and the British will grant
Zambia its independence on October 24, 1964.
1934 - Charles Patton joins the ancestors in Indianola, Mississippi. He
was a bluesman who is considered to be the creator of the Delta
variation of the blues. His recordings between 1929 and 1934
will contribute to the national influence of the Mississippi
Delta style on the blues.
1935 - Akin Euba is born in Lagos, Nigeria. He will become a classical
composer whose work will integrate European and Yoruba influences
into his compositions. His music will be introduced to the world
at the 1972 Olympics in Munich, Germany. After receiving his Ph.D.
in 1974, he will become a music educator and continue to create
his unique African musical art form. He will eventually become a
professor of African music at the University of Pittsburgh.
1941 - In a famous Jim Crow railroad case brought by congressman Arthur
W. Mitchell, the Supreme Court rules that separate facilities
must be substantially equal.
1950 - Willie Colon in born in the Bronx in New York City. He will begin
his musical career, while a teenager, creating recordings that will
emphasize his Afro-Puerto Rican heritage in the form of salsa music.
His music will integrate the influence of Puerto Rican life in
New York City with the African influence on the Puerto Rican
experience. He will create and produce over thirty recordings and
be nominated for at least five Grammy awards in Latin music.
1957 - W. Robert Ming, a Chicago lawyer, is elected chairman of the
American Veterans Committee. He is the first African American to
head a major national veterans organization.
1967 - Muhammad Ali refuses induction into the U.S. Army and is stripped
of his boxing titles by the World Boxing Association and the New
York Athletic Association.
1983 - Two African American women, Alice Walker and Gloria Naylor, win
prestigious American Book Awards for fiction. Alice Walker's
novel "The Color Purple" will be dramatized as a theatrical movie
starring Whoopi Goldberg, Danny Glover, and Oprah Winfrey.
Naylor's first novel, "The Women of Brewster Place," will be made
into a made-for-television movie and series starring Oprah Winfrey,
Jackee', and Paula Kelly.
1990 - Clifton Reginald Wharton, Sr. joins the ancestors in Phoenix, Arizona.
He was an attorney and was the first African American to enter the
U.S. Foreign Service and the first African American to become a United
States Ambassador to a European country (Norway-1961).
1991 - Former CORE director and North Carolina judge Floyd Bixley McKissick
joins the ancestors in North Carolina at the age of 69. He led CORE
from 1963 to 1966 during its transformation to a more militant civil
rights organization.
1997 - Ann Lane Petry joins the ancestors in Old Saybrook, Connecticut. She
was a leading African American novelist and was known for her works,
"The Street," "Country Place," "The Narrows," "Harriet Tubman:
Conductor on the Underground Railroad," "Tituba of Salem Village,"
"The Drugstore Cat," and "Legends of the Saints."
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