* Today in Black History - May 28 *
1863 - The first African American regiment from the North leaves Boston to fight
in the Civil War.
1910 - Aaron Thibeaux "T-Bone" Walker is born in Linden, Texas. He will
become a creator of the modern blues and a pioneer in the development
of the electric guitar sound that will shape virtually all of popular
music in the post-World War II period. Equally important, Walker
will be the quintessential blues guitarist. He will influence
virtually every major post-World War II guitarist, including B.B.
King, Jimi Hendrix, Freddie King, Albert King, Buddy Guy, Otis Rush,
Eric Clapton, and Stevie Ray Vaughan.
1936 - Betty Sanders is born in Detroit, Michigan. She will become the wife of
El Hajj Malik Shabazz (Malcolm X), Hajja Betty Bahiyah Shabazz. After
the assassination of Malcolm, she will show herself to be a very strong
individual in her own right. She will face the difficulty of raising
six children after witnessing Malcom's tragic death. In order to support
herself and her children, she will go back to school, earning three
degrees including a doctorate in education from the University of
Massachusetts. She will teach others and become an international figure
of dignity and discipline. She will work on Jesse Jackson's campaigns for
the presidency, and will work in the African liberation struggle to free
Angola, Namibia and South Africa, and to bring democracy to Haiti. She
will join the ancestors on June 23, 1997 after succumbing to injuries
received in a fire at her New York home. At the time she will be the
director of Institutional Advancement and Public Relations at Medgar
Evers College in Brooklyn, New York.
1944 - Gladys Knight is born in Atlanta, Georgia. Making her first public
appearance at age four, she will win first place on Ted Mack's
Original Amateur Hour at seven. A member of the "Gladys Knight and the
Pips" since the early 1950's, Knight will remain with the popular group
for over 30 years before pursuing a successful solo career.
1951 - Willie Mays gets his first major league hit, a home run.
1962 - A suit alleging de facto school segregation is filed in Rochester, New
York, by the NAACP.
1966 - Percy Sledge hit number one with his first -- and what turned out to
be his biggest -- hit. "When a Man Loves a Woman" would stay at the
top of the pop music charts for two weeks. It will be the singer's
only hit to make the top ten and a million seller.
1974 - Cicely Tyson wins two Emmy awards for best actress in a special and
best actress in a drama for her portrayal of a strong Southern
matriarch in "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman."
1974 - Richard Pryor wins an Emmy for his writing contributions on the Lily
Tomlin special "Lily."
1981 - Mary Lou Williams joins the ancestors in Durham, North Carolina at the
age of 71. A jazz pianist who played with Louis Armstrong, Tommy
Dorsey, Earl "Fatha" Hines, and Benny Goodman, she formed her own band
in 1943. Williams was known for her jazz masses including one "Mary
Lou's Mass" that was choreographed by the Alvin Ailey American Dance
Theater in 1971.
1991 - Journalist Ethel L. Payne joins the ancestors in Washington, DC at the
age of 79.
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