*               Today in Black History - April 7                *

1712 - Slave riots in New York City result in the death of eight whites.
        Twenty-five slaves will be killed or commit suicide for their
        part in the riot.

1867 - Johnson C. Smith University is founded in Charlotte, North
        Carolina.

1872 - William Monroe Trotter is born in Chillicothe, Ohio.  Editor of
        the Boston "Guardian," he will also be a militant civil rights
        activist and adversary of Booker T. Washington and his
        moderate politics.

1915 - Eleanor Fagan is born in East Baltimore, Maryland.  As Billie
        Holiday or "Lady Day," she will become an internationally
        known jazz and blues singer famous for such songs as "Strange
        Fruit," "Lover Man,"  and "God Bless the Child."  Troubled in
        life by drug addiction, Holiday will die of drug and alcohol
        abuse in 1959.

1934 - William Monroe Trotter dies in Boston, Massachusetts at the age
        of sixty-two.

1938 - Trumpeter Frederick Dewayne Hubbard is born in Indianopolis,
        Indiana.  From a musical family, Hubbard will play four
        instruments in his youth and will later play with "Slide"
        Hampton, Qunicy Jones, and Art Blakey.  A leader of his own
        band since the 1960's, he will record the noteworthy albums
        "Red Clay," "First Light," and the Grammy Award-winning
        "Straight Life."

1940 - The first U.S. stamp ever to honor an African American is
        issued bearing the likeness of Booker T. Washington.  His
        likeness is on a 10-cent stamp.

1954 - Tony Dorsett is born in Rochester, Pennsylvania.  He will become
        a star football player at the University of Pittsburgh, where he
        will win the Heisman Trophy in 1976.  He will then become the
        number one pick in the 1977 NFL draft by the Dallas Cowboys.
        He will play in two Super Bowls, five NFC championship games,
        four Pro Bowls, will be All-NFL in 1981, and NFC rushing
        champion in 1982.  His career totals include 12,739 yards
        rushing, 398 receptions for 3,544 yards, 16,326 combined net
        yards, 90 touchdowns, and a record 99 yard run for a touchdown
        against the Minnesota Vikings in 1983.  He will end his career
        with the 1988 Denver Broncos.  He will be enshrined in the NFL
        Hall of Fame in 1994.

1985 - Prince (or The Artist Formerly Known As Prince -- TAFKAP) ends
        his 32-city tour and says that he is withdrawing from live
        performances for "an indeterminate number of years". The last
        city on the tour is Miami, Florida.  He means it so much, he
        will change his name to a symbol and the name TAFKAP.

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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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