* 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. She will join the
ancestors on January 31, 2006 after succumbing to complications of a
stroke and heart attack.
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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