*		Today in Black History - May 14			*

1867 - A riot occurs in Mobile, Alabama, after an African American 
	mass meeting.  One African American and one white are 
	killed. 

1885 - Erskine Henderson wins the Kentucky Derby riding Joe Cotton. 
	The horse's trainer is another African-American, Alex 
	Perry.

1897 - Sidney Joseph Bechet is born in New Orleans, Louisiana. A 
	member of both Duke Ellington's and Noble Sissle's 
	orchestras, Bechet moved to France and there achieved the 
	greatest success of his career. He had been the greatest 
	jazz soloist of the 1920s along with Louis Armstrong. He 
	will join the ancestors on May 14, 1959.

1898 - Arthur James 'Zutty' Singleton is born in Bunkie, Louisiana. 
	He will	become a percussion musician and bandleader. He 
	will start as a drummer at the age of 15 and will work in 
	a variety of bands until he forms his own in 1920. He will 
	eventually make his way to Chicago and will become part of 
	the "Chicago School of Jazz." He will be primarily 
	remembered for introducing sock cymbals and wire brushes 
	as percussion accessories.  These innovations will place 
	him in demand as an accompanist for jazz greats like Louis 
	Armstrong, Fats Waller, Dizzy Gillespie, Jelly Roll Morton, 
	and Charlie Parker. He will perform primarily in New York 
	City from 1953 until 1970.  He will join the ancestors in 
	1975.

1906 - Ngwazi Hastings Kamuzu Banda is born near Kasungu, British 
	Central African Protectorate.  Even though his official 
	birthdate is cited as 1906, many sources show his birth 
	date as 1898. He will become Malawi's first prime minister 
	after independence in 1963.  In 1966, he will elected 
	Malawi's president in 1966.  He will lead Malawi until 
	1994.  He will join the ancestors in Johannesburg, South 
	Africa in 1997.

1913 - Clara Stanton Jones is born in St. Louis, Missouri.  She 
	will become the first African American director of the 
	Detroit Public Library and the first African American 
	president of the American Library Association.

1943 - Tania J. Leon is born in Havana, Cuba. She will become a 
	pianist, composer, and orchestral conductor. Her music 
	style will encompass Afro-Cuban rhythm and elements of 
	jazz and gospel. She will emigrate to the United States 
	in 1967 and in 1969 will join the Dance Theater	of Harlem 
	as a pianist. She will later become the artistic director 
	of the troupe. Some her compositions for the Dance 
	Theater of Harlem will include "Tones," "Beloved," and 
	"Dougla." She will debut as a conductor in 1971 and 
	starting in 1980 when she leaves the Dance Theater of 
	Harlem, will serve as guest conductor and composer with 
	orchestras in the United States and Europe. In 1993, she 
	will become an advisor to the New York Philharmonic 
	conductor, Kurt Masur on contemporary music.

1959 - Soprano saxophonist Sidney Joseph Bechet joins the 
	ancestors in Paris, France on his sixty second birthday 
	after succumbing to cancer.  

1961 - A bus, with the first group of Freedom Riders, is bombed 
	and burned by segregationists outside Anniston, Alabama.  
	The group is attacked in Anniston and Birmingham.

1963 - Twenty-year-old Arthur Ashe becomes the first African 
	American to make the U.S. Davis Cup tennis team.

1966 - Georgia Douglas Johnson joins the ancestors in Washington, 
	DC at the age of 88. She was a poet and playwright. While 
	she never lived in Harlem, she is associated with the 
	Harlem Renaissance because her home was a regular oasis 
	for many of the writers of that literary movement.  Her 
	home hosted writer workshops and discussion groups while
	also being a place of lodging for those writers when they
	visited Washington, DC. Her own poetry and plays were 
	very popular with African American audiences during the 
	1920s.

1969 - John B. McLendon becomes the first African American coach 
	in the ABA when he signs a two-year contract with the 
	Denver Nuggets.

1970 - Two students are killed by police officers in a major 
	racial disturbance at Jackson State University in 
	Jackson, Mississippi.

1986 - Reggie Jackson hits his 537th home run passing Mickey 
	Mantle into 6th place of all time home run hitters.

1989 - Kirby Puckett becomes the first professional baseball 
	player since 1948 to hit 6 consecutive doubles.

1995 - Myrlie Evers-Williams (widow of Medgar Evers) is sworn in 
	to head the NAACP, pledging to lead the civil rights group 
	away from its recent troubles and restore it as a 
	political and social force. 

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