* Today in Black History - October 26 *
1868 - White terrorists kill several African Americans in St.
Bernard Parish, near New Orleans, Louisiana.
1868 - B.F. Randolph, state senator and chairman of the state
Republican party, is assassinated in broad daylight at
Hodges Depot in Abbeville, South Carolina.
1911 - Mahalia Jackson is born in New Orleans, Louisiana. Known
as the "Gospel Queen," Jackson will become instrumental
in the popularization of gospel music and songs.
Jackson's traditional gospel audiences transcended
beyond African American churchgoers through her
recordings, radio performances and concert tours in
America and abroad. Her recordings will sell millions of
copies. She will join the ancestors on January 27, 1972.
1919 - Edward William Brooke III is born in Washington, DC.
After serving in World War II and obtaining a law degree
from Boston University, he will be elected attorney
general of the State of Massachusetts and serve a term
of four years before being elected to the United States
Senate as a Republican in 1966, the first African
American Senator elected since Reconstruction. In the
Senate, he will oppose President Nixon's policies in
Southeast Asia, advocate low-income housing, and oppose
quotas to meet affirmative action goals. Among his
awards will be the NAACP's Spingarn Medal in 1967. He will
join the ancestors on January 3, 2015.
1921 - Solomon Porter Hood is named minister to Liberia.
1934 - At a New York City conference, representatives of the
NAACP and the American Fund for Public Service plan a
coordinated legal campaign against segregation and
discrimination. Charles H. Houston, Vice-Dean of the
Howard University Law School, is named director of the
NAACP legal campaign.
1950 - Walter Eugene "Chuck" Foreman is born in Frederick, Maryland.
He will become a standout football player at the University
of Miami. In 1973 he will be MVP of college's Senior Bowl.He
will become a star running back for the Minnesota Vikings.
He will become NFC Rookie of the Year in 1973 and NFC Player
of the Year in 1974 and 1976. He will also play in losing
efforts in Super Bowls VIII, IX, and XI. He will retire from
the NFL after the 1980 season. His career statistics will
include 5,950 total yards rushing with 1,556 carries (3.8
yard average) for 53 touchdowns. He will also receive 350
passes for 3,156 yards (9.0 yard average) for 23 touchdowns.
In 2005, the College Football Hall of Fame will honor him
with the Community Service Award. In 2007, he will be
inducted to the Minnesota Vikings Ring of Honor.
1951 - William Earl Collins is born in Cincinnati, Ohio. He will
become a rhythm and blues performer and bandleader known
as "Bootsy" Collins. He will form his first group, the
Pacesetters, in 1968. From 1969 to 1971, the group will
function as James Brown's backup band and will be dubbed
the JB's. In 1972, Bootsy will join George Clinton's
Parliament/Funkadelic. He will launch Bootsy's Rubber
Band as a spin-off of P-Funk in 1976. He will record
with Warner Brothers from 1976 through 1982. After a
six year hiatus, he will sign with Columbia Records in
1988 and actively record into the 1990s. He will be
inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997 with
fifteen other members of Parliament-Funkadelic.
1951 - Joe Louis is defeated by Rocky Marciano in the eighth
round in a bout at Madison Square Garden.
1954 - James Pickens Jr. is born in Cleveland, Ohio. He will become
and actor. He will start his professional acting career at
the Roundabout Theatre in New York City playing Walter Lee
in A Raisin in the Sun. In 1981, he will perform in the
Negro Ensemble Company's production of A Soldier's Play,
starring alongside Denzel Washington and Samuel L. Jackson.
In 1986, he will move to the West Coast and begin his
Hollywood career playing Zack Edwards on the soap opera
Another World from 1986 to 1990. He will go on to have
recurring roles on "X-Files" as Deputy Director Kersh, Curb
Your Enthusiasm, The West Wing, Roseanne, Beverly Hills,
90210, JAG, and Six Feet Under. He will also serve a role
in 42. In 2002, he will have a cameo appearance as the male
zoo doctor in the film Red Dragon. In the February 28, 2007,
all-star benefit reading of "The Gift of Peace" at UCLA's
Freud Playhouse, he will portray a man whose life
experiences lead him to volunteer in the peace movement,
and play alongside actors Ed Asner, Barbara Bain, Amy
Brenneman, George Coe, and Wendie Malick. The play will be
an open appeal and fundraiser for passage of U.S. House
Resolution 808, which seeks to establish a Cabinet-level
"Department of Peace" in the U.S. government, to be funded
by a two-percent diversion of the Pentagon's annual budget.
In 2005, he will be chosen to play Dr. Richard Webber on the
ABC medical drama Grey's Anatomy.
1961 - Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta is born in Nairobi, Kenya Colony. He will
become a Kenyan politician, businessman, and the fourth and
current President of the Republic of Kenya. He will serve as
the Member of Parliament (MP) for Gatundu South from 2002 to
2013. He will be a member and the party leader of the Jubilee
Party of Kenya. Uhuru will be previously associated with the
Kenya Africa National Union before joining The National
Alliance, one of the allied parties that will campaign for his
reelection during the 2017 general elections. He is the son of
Jomo Kenyatta, Kenya's first President, and his fourth wife
Mama Ngina Kenyatta. Uhuru will be re-elected for a second
term in the August 2017 general election, winning 54% of the
popular vote. The win will be formally declared on national
television by the Chairman of the Independent Electoral and
Boundaries Commission Wafula Chebukati. However, his election
will be successfully challenged in the Supreme Court of Kenya
by his main competitor, Raila Odinga. On September 1, 2017,
the court will declare the election invalid and order a new
presidential election to take place within 60 days from the
day of the ruling. A new presidential election will be held on
October 26, which he will win, with 39% participation due to
voter fatigue, voter apathy and being boycotted by the
opposition.
1962 - Louise Beavers, who starred in more than 100 films,
including "Imitation of Life", "The Jackie Robinson
Story", and "Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House",
joins the ancestors in Los Angeles, California.
1970 - Following 3 1/2 years of forced isolation from boxing,
Muhammad Ali returns to the ring and beats Jerry Quarry
in Atlanta, Georgia.
1976 - Florence Kasumba is born in Kampala, Uganda. Her childhood will be
spent in Essen, Germany, where she will attend elementary school
and high school. After watching the musical Starlight Express at
the age of 12, she will be inspired to become a performer. She
will earn her degree in acting, singing, and dancing from Fontys
University of Applied Sciences in Tilburg, the Netherlands. She
will be fluent in three languages: German, English, and Dutch.
She will make her home in Berlin, Germany. While she was still
studying in college, she will land her first professional film
role, Silke, in the Dutch motion picture hit Ik ook van jou.
After graduating from college, she will perform in many musicals,
such as Chicago, The Lion King, Cats, West Side Story, Evita,
and Beauty and the Beast. She will travel to New York City and
will be cast in the title role in Germany’s premiere production
of Elton John’s international hit musical Aida. She will also
play Lisa in Germany’s premiere cast of Mamma Mia. Her single
line interaction with Scarlett Johansson's Black Widow in the
2016 film Captain America: Civil War has been called "scene
stealing". Her role will be credited as that of a security guard
for Black Panther. She will reprise the character, Ayo, a member
of the Dora Milaje, an all-female fighting squad, in the Black
Panther solo film as well as Avengers: Infinity War. Following
her first appearance in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, she will
play Senator Acantha in 2017's Wonder Woman and the Wicked Witch
of the East in the NBC television series Emerald City. She will
split her time between US and German film and TV productions.
1976 - Trinidad & Tobago becomes a republic.
1977 - Dr. Clifford R. Wharton Jr. is named chancellor of the
State University of New York.
1980 - Ten African American Roman Catholic bishops issue a pastoral
letter asserting that "the Church must seize the initiative to
'share the gift of our blackness with the Church in the United
States.'"
1983 - Folake Olowofoyeku is born in Lagos, Nigeria. She will become an
actress and musician. In 2001 at the age of 18 years old, she will
emigrate to the United States. She will attend college and will
receive a B.A. in theater from City College of New York. After
graduating from college, she will get her start working in off-off-
off-Broadway theater in New York City. She will appear in guest
starring roles on television shows that include 30 Rock, How to Get
Away with Murder, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Law & Order:
Special Victims Unit, Modern Family, Westworld, and White Collar.
She will star in the 2017 film, Death Race 2050, as Minerva
Jefferson. The film will be a remake of the 1975 cult film, Death
Race 2000, and will be filmed in Lima, Peru. Also in 2017, she will
appear opposite Gaby Hoffmann in the last season of the TV series
Transparent, as her love interest, Lyfe. In September 2019, she will
co-star opposite comedian Billy Gardell in the 2019 Chuck Lorre CBS
sitcom, Bob Hearts Abishola, which Lorre will create with British-
Nigerian comedian Gina Yashere – who will write for the show and
play her character's best friend, Kemi. Bob Hearts Abishola is the
first American sitcom to feature a Nigerian family. She will play
Abishola, a Nigerian cardiac nurse who meets a compression sock
businessman named Bob in Detroit. The show will feature a building
romance between the two, who find they have more in common than
differences. She will say that the show is also groundbreaking
because it features cast members, including Abishola, speaking in
the Yoruba language. She will also play Afro-beat electronic music
under the moniker The Folake. She will play guitar, piano, and will
work as a sound engineer. She will be granted a diploma in audio
engineering from the Institute of Audio Research. In 2013, she will
appear in two David Bowie videos as his bass guitar player: "The
Stars (Are Out Tonight)" and "The Next Day".
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