*               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.

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

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

1927 - Coretta Scott is born in Marion, Ala. 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.

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.

        Kwame Nkrumah, African statesman and the first president
        of Ghana, dies in exile, in Conarky, Guinea at the age of
        62.

1972 - Artist Charles Alston dies in New York City. After studying
        at Columbia University and Pratt Institute, he 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."  Among his other notable works are
        "School Girl," "Frederick Douglass," and "Nobody Knows."

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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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