*               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 Brawley is born in Benedict, 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 dean of Morehouse.  His books, among them
        "A Short History of the American Negro" and "A New Survey of
        English Literature," will be landmark texts recommended at
        several colleges.

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.

1950 - Charles Hamilton Houston, architect of the NAACP legal
        campaign, joins the ancestors in Washington, DC at the age of
        54.

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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