*		 Today in Black History - October 24              *

1892 - 25,000 African American workers strike in New Orleans, 
	Louisiana.  This is the first major job stoppage in U.S.
	labor history by African Americans.

1923 - The U.S. Department of Labor issues a report stating that 
	approximately 500,000 African Americans had left the South 
	in the preceding twelve months.

1935 - Langston Hughes's play "Mulatto" opens on Broadway.  It will 
	have the longest run of any play by an African American 
	until Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun."

1935 - Italy invades Ethiopia. African Americans hold mass meetings 
	of protest and raise funds for the Ethiopian defenders.
 
1936 - The Boston Chronicle blasts the soon-to-be-released movie 
	"The Big Broadcast" of 1937 for featuring a white pianist 
	who appears in the movie while Teddy Wilson actually plays 
	the music: "The form of racial discrimination and 
	falsification of acts...is frequently duplicated by many 
	whites in their daily dealings with Negroes...Negro farm 
	hands and laborers in other fields of industry produce 
	billions of dollars of wealth, but the white landowners and 
	sweat shop operators get all the profit." 

1942 - In recognition of the influence of so-called race music, 
	Billboard magazine creates its first ratings chart devoted 
	to African American music, The Harlem Hit Parade.  The 
	number-one record is "Take It & Git" by Andy Kirk and His 
	Twelve Clouds of Joy, featuring Mary Lou Williams on piano. 

1948 - Frizzel Gray is born in Baltimore, Maryland.  Better known as
	Kweisi Mfume, an adopted African name that means "Conquering
	Son of Kings," he will be elected a congressman from 
	Maryland's 7th District in 1986.   He will later leave the
	Congress to become the head of the NAACP.

1964 - Kenneth David Kuanda becomes President of Zambia as Zambia 
	(Northern Rhodesia) gains independence from Great Britain. 

1972 - Jack Roosevelt "Jackie" Robinson joins the ancestors at the 
	age of 53 in Stamford, Connecticut.

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