* Today in Black History - May 1 *
1863 - Confederate congress passes resolution which brands African
American troops and their officers criminals. The Resolution,
in effect, dooms captured African American soldiers to death
or slavery.
1866 - White Democrats and police attack freedmen and their white
allies in Memphis, Tennessee. Forty-six African Americans
and two white liberals are killed. More than seventy are
wounded. Ninety homes, twelve schools and four churches are
burned.
1867 - Reconstruction of the South begins with the registering of
African American and white voters in the South. Gen. Philip
H. Sheridan orders the registration to begin in Louisiana on
May 1 and to continue until June 30. Registration will begin
in Arkansas in May. Other states follow in June and July.
By the end of October, 1,363,000 citizens had registered in
the South, including 700,000 Blacks. African American voters
constitute a majority in five states: Alabama, Florida,
Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina.
1901 - Sterling Brown is born in Washington, DC. He will become a
poet, literary critic, editor of "The Negro in American
Fiction" and "Negro Poetry and Drama," and the coeditor of
the anthology, "The Negro Caravan."
1941 - A. Philip Randolph issues a call for 100,000 African Americans
to march on Washington, DC., to protest armed forces and
defense industry discrimination. In response, President
Franklin D. Roosevelt, who attempted to persuade Randolph
and others to cancel the demonstration, will issue Executive
Order 8802, to ban federal discrimination, before Randolph
finally yields.
1946 - Mrs. Emma Clarissa Clement is named "American Mother of the
Year" by the Golden Rule Foundation.
1948 - Glenn H. Taylor, U.S. Senator from Idaho and Vice-presidential
candidate of the Progressive party, is arrested in Birmingham,
for trying to enter a meeting through a door marked "for
Negroes."
1950 - Gwendolyn Brooks becomes the first African American to win a
Pulitzer Prize for her book of poetry "Annie Allen."
1975 - A commemorative stamp of poet Paul Laurence Dunbar is issued
by the U.S. Postal Service as part of its American Arts
series.
1981 - Dr. Clarence A. Bacote, historian and political scientist, dies
in Atlanta, Georgia at the age of 75.
1990 - Robert Guillaume, former star of the Benson TV series,
premieres in the title role in "Phantom of the Opera" at the
Music Center in Los Angeles. Guillaume continues the role
that had been played to critical acclaim by the English star
Michael Crawford.
1991 - Rickey Henderson steals his 939th base in the Oakland A's
game against the New York Yankees, breaking Lou Brock's
record.
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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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