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******* Today in Black History – April
18, 2014 *******
1818 - Andrew Jackson defeats a force of Indians and African
Americans at the
Battle of Suwanee, ending the First
Seminole War.
1861 - Nicholas Biddle becomes the first African American in
uniform to be
wounded in the Civil War.
1864 - The First Kansas Colored Volunteers break through
Confederate lines
at Poison Spring, Arkansas. The
unit will sustain
heavy losses when captured African
American soldiers
are murdered by Confederate troops
as opposed to being
taken as POWs, which is the
standard treatment
for captured whites.
1877 - The American Nicodemus Town Company is founded by six
African American
settlers in northwestern Kansas. The
town will be
settled later in the year.
1924 - Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown is born in Vinton,
Louisiana.
He will become a
blues musician and will be inspired by
the sounds of
T-Bone Walker, Count Basie and Duke
Ellington. He will become a Grammy winner and be
nominated six
times. He will be unrivaled in his
ability to
seamlessly combine blues, country, soul and
jazzy Rhythm &
Blues. He will be best known for his
hits, "Okie
Dokie Stomp," "Boogie Rambler," "Just
Before Dawn,"
"Dirty Work At The Crossroads," and
"Gatemouth
Boogie." He will join the ancestors on
September 10, 2005,
1941 - Bus companies in New York City agree to hire African
American drivers
and mechanics. This agreement ends a
four-week boycott.
1941 - Dr. Robert Weaver is named director of Office of
Production
Management section, charged with integrating
African Americans
into the National Defense Program.
1955 - The Bandung Conference of leaders of "colored"
nations
of Africa and Asia
opens in Indonesia. Hosted by
Indonesian
President Sukarno, the conference is
attended by
representatives of 29 African and Asian
countries. Its main objective was to express their
opposition to the
colonialist and imperialist policies
of First World
nations.
1961 - James Benton Parsons is the first African American judge
of a U.S. district
court in the continental United
States. Chicago attorney Parsons is appointed judge
of
the U.S. District
Court of Northern Illinois.
1983 - Alice Walker is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for "The
Color Purple."
Ten days later, the novel will also win
the American Book
Award for fiction.
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The source for these facts are "Encyclopedia Britannica,
"InfoBeat,"
"I, Too, Sing
Book of Days," "Before the Mayflower", "Black Firsts" and
independent research by Rene’ A. Perry.
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