* 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. ______________________________________________________________ Munirah Chronicle is edited by Brother Mosi Hoj "The TRUTH shall make you free" E-mail: <[log in to unmask]> Archives: http://listserv.icors.org/archives/Munirah.html http://blackagenda.com/cybercolonies/index.htm _____________________________________________________________ To SUBSCRIBE send E-mail to: <[log in to unmask]> In the E-mail body place: Subscribe Munirah Your FULL Name ______________________________________________________________ Munirah(TM) is a trademark of Information Man. Copyright 1998 - 2006, All Rights Reserved by the Information Man in association with The Black Agenda.