* Today in Black History - April 15 *
1861 - President Lincoln calls for 75,000 troops to put down the
rebellion. The Lincoln administration rejects African American
volunteers. For almost two years straight African Americans
fight for the right, as one humorist puts it, "to be kilt".
1889 - Asa Philip Randolph is born in Crescent Way, Florida. He will
become a labor leader, the organizer of the Brotherhood of
Sleeping Car Porters in 1925, and a tireless fighter for civil
rights. He will join the ancestors in 1979.
1919 - Elizabeth Catlett is born in Washington, DC. She will become an
internationally known printmaker and sculptor who will emigrate
to Mexico and embrace both African and Mexican influences in her
art.
1922 - Harold Washington is born in Chicago, Illinois. He will serve
in the Illinois House of Representatives and Senate as well as
two terms in Congress before becoming the first African
American mayor of Chicago. He will join the ancestors after
suffering a massive heart attack on November 25, 1987 after
being re-elected to a second term as mayor.
1928 - Pioneering architect Norma Merrick (later Sklarek) is born in
New York City. Sklarek will be the first licensed woman
architect in the United States and the first African American
woman to become a fellow in the American Institute of Architects
(1980).
1947 - Baseball player Jackie Robinson plays his first major-league
baseball game (he had played exhibition games previously) for
the Brooklyn Dodgers, becoming the first African American in the
major leagues since Moses Fleetwood Walker played in 1885. The
Brooklyn Dodgers promoted him to the majors from the Montreal
Royals.
1957 - Evelyn Ashford is born in Shreveport, Louisiana. She will grow
up in Roseville, California becoming a track star specializing
in sprinting. She will be a four-time winner of Olympic gold
medals and one silver in 1976, 1984, 1988, and 1992. In 1979,
she will set a world record in the 200-meter dash. In 1989 she
will receive the Flo Hyman Award from the Woman's Sports
Foundation. In 1992, the U.S. Olympic team will ask her to carry
the flag during the opening ceremonies in the Barcelona Olympics.
She will retire from track and field in 1993 at the age of 36.
1958 - African Freedom Day is declared at the All-African People's
Conference in Accra, Ghana.
1960 - The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) is formed
on the campus of Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina.
1985 - Thomas "Hit Man" Hearns wins the World Middleweight title. This
is one of five weight classes in which he will win a boxing title
making him the first African American to win boxing titles in
five different weight classes.
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