* Today in Black History - May 30 *
1822 - Denmark Vesey's conspiracy to free the slaves of Charleston,
South Carolina, and surrounding areas is thwarted when a
house slave betrays the plot to whites. Vesey's bold plan
had attracted over 9,000 slaves and freemen of the area
including Peter Poyas, a ship's carpenter, Gullah Jack,
Blind Phillip, Ned Bennett and Mingo Harth. Later it will
be considered one of the most complex and elaborate slave
liberation plans ever undertaken.
1831 - James Walker Hood is born in Kennett Township, Chester
County, Pennsylvania. He will become a minister in New
York City in the A.M.E. Zion Church. He will become the
first African American to publish a collection of sermons
when he publishes "The Negro in the Christian Pulpit." His
other works will include "One Hundred Years of the African
Methodist Episcopal Zion Church," and "The Plan of The
Apocalypse." He will join the ancestors on October 30, 1918.
1854 - The Kansas-Nebraska Act repeals the Missouri Compromise and
opens the Northern territory to slavery.
1902 - Lincoln Theodore Monroe Andrew Perry is born in Key West,
Florida. He will become the first real African American
film star known as "Stepin Fetchit." Many sources will
cite 1892, 1896, or 1898 as his birth date, but he will
maintain his birth date as 1902. He will star in many films,
among which are "Amazing Grace," "The Sun Shines Bright,"
"Miracle in Harlem," and "Judge Priest." His humbling,
ingratiating style of acting will appeal to the movie-going
public of his day, but unfortunately becomes a stereotype
for African American actors in the early years of cinema.
He will join the ancestors on November 19, 1985.
1903 - Countee Cullen is born in Louisville, Kentucky. Many sources
will state that his birthplace is New York City, but Cullen
will be reared in New York City by his paternal grandmother
until 1918, when he is adopted by the Reverend Frederick
Asbury Cullen, minister of Salem M.E. Church, one of the
largest congregations in Harlem. This will be a turning
point in his life, for he will be introduced into the very
center of Black activism and achievement. He will win a
citywide poetry contest as a schoolboy and see his winning
stanzas widely reprinted. He will attend New York
University (B.A., 1925), win the Witter Bynner Poetry Prize,
and be elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Major American literary
magazines will accept his poems regularly, and his first
collection of poems, "Color" (1925), will be published to
critical acclaim before he finishes college. His several
volumes of poetry will include "Copper Sun" (1927); "The
Black Christ" (1929); and "On These I Stand" (published
posthumously, 1947), his selection of poems by which he
wished to be remembered. Cullen will also write a novel
dealing with life in Harlem, "One Way to Heaven" (1931),
and a children's book, "The Lost Zoo" (1940). He will join
the ancestors on January 9, 1946.
1915 - Henry Aaron Hill is born in St. Joseph, North Carolina. He
will become a trained chemist and will receive his Ph.D.
in Chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
in 1942. He will become founder and president of the
Riverside Research Laboratory in 1961. In 1977, he will
become the first African American president of the American
Chemical Society. He will join the ancestors on March 17,
1979.
1943 - James Earl Chaney is born in Meridian, Mississippi. He will
become a civil rights activist and joins the Congress For
Racial Equality. During Freedom Summer (1964 - when civil
rights organizations begin an extensive voter registration
and desegregation campaign in Mississippi), he will join
the ancestors on June 21, 1964, after being killed by the
Ku Klux Klan in Greenwood along with two white civil rights
activists.
1943 - Gale Sayers is born in Wichita, Kansas. He will become an
outstanding running back and a first-round draft pick of
the Chicago Bears in 1965. He will set the individual game
record for touchdowns scored (six). He will be elected to
the Football Hall of Fame in 1977, the youngest player ever
to receive the honor.
1949 - Lydell Douglas Mitchell is born in Salem, New Jersey. He
will become a football player and All-American running back
at Pennsylvania State University in 1971. He will go on to
play for the Baltimore Colts from 1972 to 1977. While at
Baltimore, he will set the Colts' record for rushing
attempts (1391) and rushing yards (5487). After his
successful career run in Baltimore, Mitchell will be traded
to the San Diego Chargers after the 1977 season. He will
turn in a solid season in 1978 with the Dan Fouts-led
Chargers and will finish his career in 1980 appearing in
two games with the Los Angeles Rams. He will be inducted
into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2004.
1953 - Eric Arthur "Dooley" Wilson joins the ancestors in Los
Angeles, California at the age of 59. He was a popular
jazz drummer in Europe and America. He also worked as an
actor, his most notable part playing the pianist "Sam" in
the movie "Casablanca." He also appeared in the movies
"Stormy Monday" and "Night in New Orleans."
1956 - African Americans begin a bus boycott in Tallahassee,
Florida with the goal of desegregating bus seating.
1961 - Ralph David Carter is born in New York City. He will become
an actor and singer best remembered as Michael Evans, the
youngest child of Florida and James Evans, Sr., on the CBS
sitcom "Good Times" from 1974-1979. Before joining "Good Times,"
he will appear in the Broadway musical "Raisin," based on the
Lorraine Hansberry drama "A Raisin in the Sun"; as was noted
in the credits during the first season. He will start on
Broadway at just nine years old in the musical "The Me Nobody
Knows." After runs in "Tough To Get Help," "Dude" and "Via
Galactica," he will land his breakout role as Travis Younger
in "Raisin." For which, he won the 1973 Drama Desk Award for
Most Promising Performer as well as the 1974 Theatre World
Award, and a nomination for the 1974 Tony Award in the category
for Best Supporting or Featured Actor in a Musical. His success
in "Raisin" brought him to the attention of Norman Lear, who
bought out the remainder of his Broadway contract to cast him
as the first original character of "Good Times," James and
Florida's youngest son, Michael. In 1975, he will record an
album called "When You're Young and in Love," and perform it on
Soul Train. The title song, along with another called "Extra,
Extra" will chart at No. 10 and No. 12 respectively. He will
release a single called "Get it Right" in 1985. In 2005, he will
appear on the cast of "Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death" for
the Classical Theater of Harlem Company.
1965 - Vivian Malone becomes the first African American to graduate
from the University of Alabama, a college that had been one
of the last bastions of racial segregation in the South.
1967 - The state of Biafra secedes and declares its independence
from Nigeria. Biafra is inhabited primarily by Igbos (also
spelled Ibos) who live in southeastern Nigeria. Two months
after independence, Nigeria will attack Biafra and start a
war that will last until 1970 with Biafra's surrender. Over
a million people will die due to war and famine.
1971 - Willie Mays scores his 1,950th run.
1975 - Thomas DeCarlo Callaway is born in Atlanta, Georgia. He will be
known professionally as CeeLo Green (or Cee Lo Green), a singer,
songwriter, rapper, record producer, and actor. He will come to
initial prominence as a member of the Southern hip hop group
Goodie Mob and later as part of the soul duo Gnarls Barkley, with
record producer Danger Mouse. Subsequently he will embark on a
solo career, partially spurred by YouTube popularity.
Internationally, he will be best known for his soul work: his
most popular was Gnarls Barkley's 2006 worldwide hit "Crazy",
which will reach number 1 in various singles charts worldwide,
including the UK. In the United States, "Crazy" will reach number
two on the Billboard Hot 100. Its parent album St. Elsewhere (2006),
also a hit, will peak at number 1 on the UK Albums Chart and number
4 on the US Billboard 200 albums chart. Gnarls Barkley's second
album, The Odd Couple (2008), charted at number 12 on the Billboard
200. In 2010, he will take a hiatus from working with Danger Mouse,
and release a solo single, on August 19. The song will become a
successful single, with the radio-edit version "Forget You",
reaching the top spot in the UK and the Netherlands and will peak at
number 2 on the US Billboard Hot 100. Its parent album, The Lady
Killer (2010), will see similar success, peaking within the top five
of the UK Albums Chart and debuting within the top 10 on the Billboard
200 albums chart, receiving a Gold certification from the BPI in the
UK. His next two singles, "It's OK" and "Bright Lights Bigger City"
will also be hits in Europe. From 2011 to 2014, he will be a judge and
coach on American reality television singing competition The Voice,
appearing on four of its seasons. In 2013, he will reunite with the
rest of Goodie Mob, to release their fifth studio album Age Against
the Machine. He will voice Murray the Mummy in the animated feature
Hotel Transylvania (2012), and will also appear in a few television
programs and films�including his own show, CeeLo Green's The Good Life,
on TBS. His work will earn numerous awards and accolades, including
five Grammy Awards, a BET Award, a Billboard Award, and a Brit Award.
1980 - Reminisce Mackie (nee Smith) is born in Castle Hill, The Bronx, New
She will be known professionally as Remy Ma, a rapper. She will be
initially discovered by Big Pun, and will come to prominence for her
work as a member of Fat Joe's group, Terror Squad. On February 7,
2006, she will release her debut studio album There's Something About
Remy: Based on a True Story, which will be a modest success, peaking
at number 33 on the Billboard 200 chart. She will be one of only five
female rappers to ever top the Billboard Hot 100 chart (as a member of
Terror Squad on "Lean Back"), and one of only three multiple winners of
the BET Award for Best Female Hip-Hop Artist, which she will win in 2005
and 2017. Ma's most successful songs will include "Ante Up (Remix)",
"Lean Back", "Conceited", and "All the Way Up". Ma will be the recipient
of two Vibe awards, two Source awards, and will be nominated for three
Grammy awards. Since 2015, she will star on VH1's reality series Love &
Hip Hop: New York, alongside her husband Papoose.
1987 - Javicia Leslie Walker is born in Augsburg, Germany. She will move to
Maryland at a young age and be raised in Upper Marlboro near Washington,
D.C. She will work professionally as Jvicia Leslie. Her first stream of
work will begin as the lead for the television film, Killer Coach. She
will continue to work ties with series such as MacGyver, Chef Julian, and
Prototype. In 2017, she will film a role as one of the leads in the film -
"The Family Business", based on the NY Times best selling author, Carl
Weber. In 2018, she will land her first series regular role as Ali Finer
in "God Friended Me" as the sister to Brandon Michael Hall for CBS. Along
with film, television, and commercials, she will perform in many plays.
These plays include August Wilson's Seven Guitars, Ntozake Shange's For
Colored Girls, and Bob Fosse's Chicago. She will also be trained in Muay
Thai, Boxing, Weapons, Dance, Track, and Swimming and regularly trains in
an extensive Fitness Bootcamp.
1993 - Herman "Sonny" Blount joins the ancestors in Birmingham, Alabama at the
age of 79. He had been a prominent jazz bandleader, arranger and pianist.
He was better known as "Sun Ra," and was the founder of Saturn Records.
Three documentaries produced about Sun Ra were "The Cry of Jazz" (1959),
"Space is the Place" (1971) and "Sun Ra: A Joyful Noise" (1980).
2011 - Clarice Taylor, who played Bill Cosby's mother on the "The Cosby Show",
joins the ancestors after succumbing to heart failure at the age 0f 93.
She earned an Emmy nomination in 1986 for her recurring role as Dr.
Heathcliff Huxtable's mother, Anna Huxtable, on the long-running sitcom.
2019 - Dr. Patricia Bath joins the ancestors after succumbing to cancer-related
complications. She was a pioneer in cataract surgery who developed and
patented the laserphaco probe, a medical device that improves on the use
of lasers to remove cataracts. 1
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