*               Today in Black History - April 7                *

1712 - A slave uprising in New York City results in the death of nine
        whites.  This is one of the first major revolt of African
        slaves in the American colonies.  After the militia arrives,
        the uprising will be suppressed.  As a result of the action,
        twenty one slaves will be executed and six others will
        commit suicide.

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.  She will
        become a jazz singer who will influence the course of American
        popular singing, better known as Billie Holiday or "Lady Day."
        She will be best known for her songs, "Strange Fruit," "Lover
        Man," and "God Bless the Child." Although she will enjoy
        limited popular appeal during her lifetime, her impact on other
        singers will be profound. Troubled in life by addiction,
        Holiday will join the ancestors as a result of drug and alcohol
        abuse in 1959.

1922 - Ramon "Mongo" Santamaria is born in Havana, Cuba. He will drop
        out of school to become a professional musician, playing gigs
        at the legendary Tropicana Club in Havana. In 1950 Santamaria
        will move to New York, where he will hook up with such Latin
        jazz greats as Perez Prado, Tito Puente and Cal Tjader. In
        1963 Santamaria will score his first Top 10 hit with the
        single "Watermelon Man," written by then bandmate Herbie
        Hancock. Santamaria will perform and record steadily
        throughout the '60s, '70s, '80s and '90s. In 1977, he will be
        awarded a Grammy for his album "Amancer." In 1999 Rhino
        Records will release a double-CD retrospective of Santamaria's
        music, The Mongo Santamaria Anthology 1958-1995, culling his
        greatest work during those five decades. He will be considered
        one of the most influential percussionists of his generation.
        He will join the ancestors in Miami, Florida on February 1,
        2003.

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

1938 - Trumpeter Frederick Dewayne Hubbard is born in Indianapolis,
        Indiana.  From a musical family, Hubbard will play four
        instruments in his youth and will later play with "Slide"
        Hampton, Quincy 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.

1994 - Civil war erupts in Rwanda, a day after a mysterious plane crash
        claims the lives of the presidents of Rwanda and Burundi. In
        the months that follow, hundreds of thousands of minority Tutsi
        and Hutu intellectuals will be slaughtered.

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