*               Today in Black History - April 22               *

1526 - The first recorded slave revolt occurs in a settlement of some
        five hundred Spaniards and one hundred slaves, located on the
        Pedee River in what is now South Carolina.

1882 - Benjamin Brawley is born in Benedict, South Carolina.  He will
        become a prolific author and educator, serving as a professor
        of English at Morehouse, Howard, and Shaw universities.  He
        will also serve as dean of Morehouse.  His books, among them
        "A Short History of the American Negro" and "A New Survey of
        English Literature," will be landmark texts recommended at
        several colleges.

1922 - Charles Mingus is born in Nogales, Arizona.  Raised in Watts,
        California, he will play double bass with Charlie Parker, Duke
        Ellington, and Bud Powell before becoming a bandleader and
        composer in his own right.  Although not as popular as Miles
        Davis or Ellington, Mingus, who also will play piano, will be
        considered one of the principal forces in modern jazz.

1950 - Charles Hamilton Houston, architect of the NAACP legal
        campaign, dies in Washington, DC at the age of 54.

1964 - A Trinity College student occupies the school administration
        building to protest campus bias.

        New York police arrest 294 demonstrators at the opening of
        the World Fair.

1970 - Yale University students protest in support of the Black
        Panthers.

1981 - Joint Center for Political Studies reports that 2991 African
        Americans held elective offices in 45 states and the District
        of Columbia, compared with 2621 in April, 1973, and 1185 in
        1969.   The Center reports 108 African American mayors.
        Michigan had the largest number of African American elected
        officials (194), followed by Mississippi (191).

        Brailsford Reese Brazeal, economist and former dean of
        Morehouse College, dies in Atlanta, Georgia, at the age of 76.

1989 - Huey Newton, black activist and co-founder of the Black Panther
        Party, is killed at age 47.

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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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