* 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 Griffith Brawley is born in Columbia, 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 the first Dean
of Morehouse. His books, among them "A Short History of the
American Negro", "The Negro in Literature and Art in the
United States" and "A New Survey of English Literature,"
will be landmark texts recommended at several colleges. He
will join the ancestors on February 1, 1939.
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. He will join the ancestors on January 5, 1979
succumbing to Lou Gehrig's disease.
1950 - Charles Hamilton Houston, architect of the NAACP legal
campaign, joins the ancestors in Washington, DC at the age
of 54.
1963 - Following oral arguments on March 28, 1963, the United States
Supreme Court rules in "Colorado Anti-Discrimination Commission
v. Continental Airlines, Inc. 372 U.S. 714 no. 146" that Marlon
Green had been unlawfully discriminated against. This decision
prevented major airlines from discriminating against pilot
applicants based on their race. The first African American
to be hired by a major airline after this decision was David
Harris, hired by American Airlines in 1964. Marlon Green, the
subject plaintiff in the Supreme Court decision was subsequently
hired by Continental Airlines in 1965.
1964 - A Trinity College student occupies the school administration
building to protest campus bias.
1964 - New York police arrest 294 civil rights demonstrators at the
opening of the World Fair.
1970 - Yale University students protest in support of the Black
Panthers.
1981 - The 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).
1981 - Brailsford Reese Brazeal, economist and former dean of
Morehouse College, joins the ancestors in Atlanta, Georgia,
at the age of 76.
1989 - Huey Newton, black activist and co-founder of the Black
Panther Party, joins the ancestors, after being killed at
age 47.
2000 - The Rev. R.F. Jenkins, a pastor active in civil-rights
organizations, who led his church for 25 years, joins the
ancestors in Omaha, Nebraska, after suffering a heart attack
at the age of 87. He was the first African American Lutheran
Church Missouri Synod minister in the Nebraska district. He
and his wife, Beatrice, had come to Omaha in 1954 after
serving pastorates in Alabama and North Carolina. He had
also previously served eight years as a faculty member at
Alabama Lutheran College. He had returned to his hometown of
Selma, Alabama, to take part in a civil-rights march in
1965. He served on the Omaha School District board from 1970
to 1976, and retired from the pulpit in 1979.
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