*               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.

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, nonminority 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. is 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
        summer riots 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, dies in Miami, Florida at the age of 63.

1974 - Hank Aaron ties Babe Ruth's record by hitting his 714th home run.

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        The source for these facts are "Encyclopedia Britannica,
        "InfoBeat," "I, Too, Sing America - The African American
        Book of Days," and independent research by the
        Information Man.
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