* Today in Black History - April 4 *
1915 - McKinley Morganfield is born in Rolling Fork, Mississippi. He
will be discovered in 1941 by two music archivists from the
Library of Congress, traveling the back roads of Mississippi
looking for the legendary Robert Johnson. They recorded two
of Morganfield's songs and lit a fire in the ambitious young
man. He will leave Mississippi for Chicago two years later to
become a blues singer better known as "Muddy Waters." He will
join the ancestors on April 30, 1983 in Chicago, Illinois.
1928 - Maya Angelou is born in St. Louis, Missouri. She will become the
first African American streetcar conductor in San Francisco, a
dancer, nightclub singer, editor, and teacher of music and drama
in Ghana and professor of American Studies at Wake Forest
University. She will also become noted as the author of a
multi-volume autobiographical series, as well as several volumes
of poetry.
1938 - Vera Mae Smart Grosvenor, who will become the author of the
popular and influential cookbook "Vibration Cooking"(1970), is
born in Fairfax, South Carolina.
1939 - Hugh Masekela is born in South Africa. He will become a musician
and band leader. He will be a major force in South African
Jazz, and will become known throughout the world.
1942 - Richard Parsons is born in New York City. In 1990, he will be
named chief executive officer of Dime Savings Bank, the first
African American CEO of a large, non-minority U.S. savings
institution.
1959 - The Federation of Mali is formed, consisting of Senegal & the
territory of Mali in the French Sudan. It will dissolve in
1960.
1960 - Senegal and Mali gain separate independence.
1968 - Acknowledged leader of the U.S. civil rights movement, Martin
Luther King, Jr. joins the ancestors after being assassinated
in Memphis, Tennessee. His death will result in a national day
of mourning and the postponement of the beginning of the baseball
season. Over 30,000 people will form a funeral procession behind
his coffin, pulled by two Georgia mules. King's death will also
set off racially motivated civil disturbances in 160 cities
leaving 82 people dead and causing $ 69 million in property
damage. President Lyndon B. Johnson declares Sunday, April 6, a
national day of mourning and orders all U.S. flags on government
buildings in all U.S. territories and possessions to fly at
half-mast.
1972 - Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., former congressman and civil rights
leader, joins the ancestors in Miami, Florida at the age of 63.
1974 - Hank Aaron ties the baseball career home run record set by Babe
Ruth, when he hits his 714th home run in Cincinnati, Ohio.
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