*                     Today in Black History - May 22                 *

1848 - Slavery is abolished on the French island of Martinique. Abolition
        will create a shortage of labor in Martinique given many former slaves
        preferred not to work in the sugar cane plantations.  To solve the
        problem, indentured servants will be brought from China and India.

1863 - The War Department establishes the Bureau of Colored Troops and launches
        an aggressive campaign for the recruitment of African American soldiers.

1940 - Bernard Shaw is born in Chicago, Illinois.  He will become a journalist
        and the principal Washington anchor for Cable News Network, where he
        will be widely respected for his coverage of world summit meetings,
        the historic student demonstrations in Beijing, Presidential primaries
        and elections, and the Gulf War.

1941 - Paul Winfield is born in Los Angeles, California.  He will become an
        actor and will star in the movies "Tyson," "Breathing Lessons,"
        "Carbon Copy," "Cliffhanger," "Dennis the Menace," "Presumed Innocent,"
        "Sounder," "The Terminator," and "Star Trek 2."

1948 - Harlem Renaissance poet and author Claude McKay joins the ancestors in
        Chicago, Illinois at the age of 58.  His novel "Home to Harlem" (1928)
        became the first best-seller written by an American of African descent.

1959 - Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. becomes the first African American major general
        in the U.S. Air Force.  In doing so, he improves upon the accomplishment
        of his father, Davis Sr., who was the first African American general
        in the U.S. Army.

1961 - The Attorney General orders two hundred additional U.S. Marshals to
        Montgomery, Alabama.  This is in addition to the four hundred U.S.
        marshals already dispatched to Montgomery to keep order in the Freedom
        Rider controversy.

1961 - Ernie K-Doe, Ernest Kador Jr., joins the growing list of "One Hit Wonders"
        -- recording artists who had only one hit. The song, "Mother-In-Law",
        is Ernie's one hit -- and a number one tune on the nation's pop music
        charts.

1966 - Bill Cosby, star of "I Spy," receives an Emmy for best actor in a dramatic
        series, the first African American in the category.  He will earn more than
        four Emmys.

1967 - Langston Hughes, noted poet, joins the ancestors in New York City.  He was
        the author of the poetry collections "The Weary Blues," "Not Without
        Laughter," "The Way of White Folks," the autobiographies "The Big Sea" and
        "I Wonder as I Wander, and plays and newspaper series.  Hughes's ashes will
        be buried at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem.

1970 - Naomi Campbell is born in London, England.  She will be discovered in a
        shopping mall when she is 15 years old.  She will become a super model
        and will open a chain of "Fashion Cafe'" establishments along with
        models Claudia Schiffer, Elle MacPherson, and Christy Turlington.

1994 - A worldwide trade embargo against Haiti, led by the United States, goes into
        effect to punish Haiti's military rulers for not reinstating the country's
        ousted elected leader, Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

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