* Today in Black History - April 24 *
1867 - The first national meeting of the Ku Klux Klan is held at the
Maxwell House in Nashville, Tennessee.
1867 - African American demonstrators stage ride-ins on Richmond,
Virginia streetcars. Troops were mobilized to restore order.
1884 - The Medico-Chirurgical Society of the District of Columbia is
founded. It is the first African American medical society.
1886 - Augustine Tolton is ordained as a Catholic priest after studying
at the College of the Propagation of the Faith in Rome for five
years. Tolton will distinguish himself as a speaker and a pastor
at Catholic churches in New Jersey, New York City, Chicago, and
Quincy, Illinois.
1895 - The National Association of Colored Physicians, Dentists and
Pharmacists is organized at the First Congregational Church in
Atlanta, Georgia. It will change its name to the National Medical
Association in 1903.
1937 - Joseph "Joe" Henderson is born in Lima, Ohio. He will make his
initial reputation in what might be called Blue Note Records'
second classic phase in the early 1960s, when a new generation of
young musicians began to extend the basic hard bop framework of
the label's seminal 1950s output in more experimental directions.
He will be one of the players at the core of that development, both
as a leader and in recordings as a sideman with artists like Kenny
Dorham, Lee Morgan, Andrew Hill, McCoy Tyner, Larry Young and
Horace Silver, among others. His firm grasp of the root idiom
combined with his experimental nature made him an ideal exponent of
the new style, which did not abandon jazz structures in as radical
a fashion as the free jazz movement. He will join the ancestors on
June 30, 2001 in San Francisco.
1943 - Speaking on race relations and racial equality at Wayne State
University, Langston Hughes says, "I am for the Christianity that
fights poll tax, race discrimination, lynching, injustice and
inequality of the masses. I don't feel that religion should be
used to beat down Jews [and] Negroes, and to persecute other
minority groups.
1944 - In Smith v. Allwright, the Supreme Court rules that a "white primary"
law that excludes African Americans from voting is a violation of
the 15th Amendment and thus unconstitutional.
1944 - George Herriman joins the ancestors in Los Angeles, California. He
had been a successful cartoonist who was the author of the comic
strip "Krazy Kat." The comic strip ran successfully from 1913 until
Herriman's death.
1948 - James Melvin Washington is born in Knoxville, Tennessee. He will
become a leading theologian whose emphasis was the African American
religious experience. He will be a professor at the Union
Theological Seminary in New York from 1975 until he joins the
ancestors in 1997. His published works will include "Frustrated
Fellowship: The Black Baptist Quest for Social Power" (1986), "A
Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings of Martin Luther King
Jr." (1986), and "Conversations with God: Two Centuries of Prayers
by African Americans" (1994).
1954 - Wesley Cook is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He will become
an activist during his teenage years and will be arrested and
beaten for demonstrating against presidential candidate governor
George Wallace of Alabama. He will be a founding member of the
Philadelphia chapter of the Black Panther Party in 1968 and will be
known as Mumia Abu-Jamal. After spending the summer months in 1970
working on the BPP newspaper in California, he will return to
Philadelphia to work as a radio journalist with the Corporation for
Public Broadcasting and will have his own talk show on station WUHY.
He will lose his position as a radio journalist after his continual
criticism of mayor Frank Rizzo and specifically his coverage of the
police treatment of the militant organization MOVE. While working
as a taxicab driver, he will be accused of killing a Philadelphia
policeman, Daniel Faulkner, in 1981. Faulkner is killed in an
altercation with Mumia's brother, after wounding Mumia. Mumia is
presumed to be the shooter and will be convicted of first-degree
murder and sentenced to death. This verdict is handed down ignoring
testimony of witnesses who saw the killer flee and irregularities
during the trial. On death row since the trial, Mumia will have
numerous appeals turned down. His case will attract worldwide
attention as a racist miscarriage of justice.
1965 - An armed revolt against the dictatorship in the Dominican Republic is
ended with an invasion by United States troops. Participating in
the revolt is Maximiliano Gomez Horatio, the leader of the
Dominican Popular Movement.
1972 - James M. Rodger, Jr., of Durham, North Carolina, is honored in a
White House ceremony as National Teacher of the Year. He is the
first African American to receive the honor.
1972 - Robert Wedgeworth is named director of the American Library
Association. He is the first African American to head the
organization.
1993 - Oliver Tambo joins the ancestors in Johannesburg, South Africa at the
age of 75. He was the former president of the African National
Congress (ANC), law partner of Nelson Mandela and an important anti-
apartheid leader.
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