* Today in Black History - October 10 *
1874 - South Carolina Republicans carry the election with a
reduced victory margin. The Republican ticket is
composed of four whites and four Blacks.
1899 - J.W. Butts, inventor, receives a patent for a luggage
carrier.
1899 - I. R. Johnson patents his bicycle frame.
1901 - Frederick Douglass Patterson is born in Washington, DC.
He will receive doctorate degrees from both Iowa State
University and Cornell University. Dr. Patterson will
serve as the president of Tuskegee Institute from 1935
to 1955. In 1943, he will organize a meeting of the
heads of Black colleges to conduct annual campaigns
for funds needed to help meet the operating expenses of
27 Black colleges and universities. This will result in
the formation of the United Negro College Fund. Dr.
Patterson will serve as its first president. In 1987,
President Ronald Reagan will award him the Presidential
Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor.
In 1988, he will be awarded the Spingarn Medal from the
NAACP. He will join the ancestors on April 26, 1988.
1914 - Ivory Joe Hunter is born in Kirbyville, Texas. He will become
a Rhythm and Blues singer, songwriter, and pianist. After
a series of hits on the US Rhythm & Blues chart starting
in the mid-1940s, he will become more widely known for his
hit recording "Since I Met You Baby" (1956). He will be
billed as "The Baron of the Boogie," and also be known as
"The Happiest Man Alive." His musical output will range
from Rhythm & Blues to blues, boogie-woogie, and country
music, and he will make a name in all of those genres.
Uniquely, he will be honored at both the Monterey Jazz
Festival and the Grand Ole Opry. He will join the ancestors
on November 8, 1974.
1917 - Thelonious Sphere Monk is born in Rocky Mount, North
Carolina. He will become an innovative jazz pianist and
composer of ‘Round Midnight.' He will be considered one
of the fathers of jazz improvisation and in 1961 will be
featured on the cover of Time magazine. He will be one
of five jazz musicians to have been featured on the
cover of Time, after Louis Armstrong, Dave Brubeck, and
Duke Ellington, and before Wynton Marsalis. His works
will include "Blue Monk", "Straight, No Chaser" "Ruby,
My Dear", "In Walked Bud", and "Well, You Needn't". He
will be the second-most recorded jazz composer after
Duke Ellington, which is particularly remarkable as
Ellington composed more than 1,000 pieces, whereas he
wrote about 70. His compositions and improvisations will
feature dissonances and angular melodic twists, and be
consistent with his unorthodox approach to the piano,
which combines a highly percussive attack with abrupt,
dramatic use of silences and hesitations. He will be
renowned for his distinctive style in suits, hats, and
sunglasses. He will also be noted for an idiosyncratic
habit observed at times during performances: while the
other musicians in the band continue playing, he will
stop, stand up from the keyboard, and dance for a few
moments before returning to the piano. He will join
the ancestors on February 17, 1982.
1926 - Oscar Brown, Jr. is born in Chicago, Illinois. He will
become a singer, songwriter, playwright, poet, civil
rights activist, and actor. Aside from his career, he will
run unsuccessfully for office in both the Illinois state
legislature and the U.S. Congress. He will write numerous
songs (only 125 have been published), 12 albums, and more
than a dozen musical plays. On May 29, 2005, he will join
the ancestors in his hometown of Chicago from osteomyelitis
at the age of 78.
1928 - Cyril Clairmonte Depeiaza is born in Mount Standfast, Saint
James Parish, Barbados. He will become a West Indian cricketer.
A wicketkeeper, he will play in the Barbados Cricket League.
He will play first-class cricket for Barbados from 1951–52 to
1956–57, and will tour New Zealand with the West Indian team
in 1955–56. He will play the last three Tests against
Australia in 1954–55, and the first two against New Zealand
in 1955–56. In the first Test of the New Zealand tour he will
not keep wicket – Alfie Binns was preferred – and he will
bowl for the only time in his first-class career. In a brief
international Test career, he will be best known for a world
Test record 7th wicket partnership with Denis Atkinson of
347 in which he made his only first-class hundred of 122.
The pair came together with the score at 147 for 6 in reply
to Australia's first innings of 668. Their partnership record
still stands. During the partnership he was hit on the chest
numerous times by short balls from Keith Miller and Ray Lindwall,
leading to a suggestion from the father of his Barbados team-mate
John Goddard that he wear a piece of protective foam rubber
around his chest. This will be the first known instance of a
chest protector used in Test cricket. Following the innings, the
crowd will collect $1000 for him. Nicknamed "The Leaning Tower
of Depeiaza" because of the way he leans forward in his defensive
shots, Depeiaza will work as a customs clerk. He will move to
England and play league and Minor Counties cricket in the 1960s
and 1970s. He will join the ancestors on November 10, 1995 in
Manchester, England.
1935 - George Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess" premieres at the
Alvin Theater in New York City.
1935 - Ousmane Sow is born in Dakar, Senegal. After the transition of
his father in 1956, he will leave Dakar to study in France,
where he will obtain a diploma in physiotherapy. He will return
to Senegal after it becomes independent in 1960 and will start
a practice in physiotherapy. He will later go back to France
and practice there, but will return to Senegal in 1978. He will
be inspired by photographs by Leni Riefenstahl of the Nuba peoples
of southern Sudan, and from 1984 will begin to work on a series of
larger-than-life sculptures of muscular Nuba wrestlers. To make
them, he will develop a series of new techniques and materials.
They will be shown at the Centre Culturel Français de Dakar in 1987.
He will later make series of sculptures of Maasai people, of Zulu
people, of Peul or Fulani people, and, in the late 1990s, of Native
Americans. He will have many international exhibitions, including
at documenta IX in Kassel in 1992, at Palazzo Grassi in Venice
during the Biennale of 1995, and on the Pont des Arts in Paris in
1999. In 2008, on the theme of Culture and the human body, he will
be one of the eleven laureates of the Prince Claus Awards. On
April 11, 2012, he will be elected a Membre Associé Etranger
("foreign associate member") of the Académie des Beaux-Arts of the
Institut de France, replacing Andrew Wyeth. He will be the first
black person to be elected to membership. He will join the ancestors
in Dakar on December 1, 2016 at the age of 81.
1941 - Ken Saro-Wiwa is born in Bori, Nigeria. He will become a writer,
television producer, environmental activist, and winner of the Right
Livelihood Award for "exemplary courage in striving non-violently for
civil, economic and environmental rights" and the Goldman
Environmental Prize. He will be a member of the Ogoni people, an
ethnic minority in Nigeria whose homeland, Ogoniland, in the Niger
Delta will be targeted for crude oil extraction since the 1950s and
which will suffer extreme environmental damage from decades of
indiscriminate petroleum waste dumping. Initially as spokesperson,
and then as president, of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni
People (MOSOP), he will lead a nonviolent campaign against
environmental degradation of the land and waters of Ogoniland by the
operations of the multinational petroleum industry, especially the
Royal Dutch Shell company. He will also be an outspoken critic of the
Nigerian government, which he will view as reluctant to enforce
environmental regulations on the foreign petroleum companies
operating in the area. At the peak of his non-violent campaign, he
will be tried by a special military tribunal for allegedly
masterminding the gruesome murder of Ogoni chiefs at a pro-government
meeting, and hanged on November 10, 1995 by the military dictatorship
of General Sani Abacha. His execution will provoke international
outrage and will result in Nigeria's suspension from the Commonwealth
of Nations for over three years.
1946 - Benjamin Augustus Middleton (later Vereen) is born in
Miami, Florida. He will become a dancer and multi-
faceted entertainer. He will be 18 years old when he
makes his New York stage bow off-off Broadway in "The
Prodigal Son" at the Greenwich Mews Theater. By the
following year, he will be in Las Vegas, performing
in Bob Fosse's production of "Sweet Charity," a show
with which he will tour in 1967–1968. He will return
to New York City to play Claude in "Hair" in the
Broadway production, before joining the national
touring company. The following year, he will be cast
opposite Sammy Davis, Jr. in the film adaptation of
"Sweet Charity." After developing a rapport with
Davis, he will be cast as his understudy in the
upcoming production of "Golden Boy," which toured
England and ended the run at the Palladium Theatre
in London's West End. He will be nominated for a Tony
Award for "Jesus Christ Superstar" in 1972 and will
win a Tony for his appearance in "Pippin" in 1973. He
will appear in the Broadway musical "Wicked" as the
Wizard of Oz in 2005. He will also perform in one-man
shows and actively lecture on black history and
inspirational topics.
1953 - Gus Williams is born in Mount Vernon, New York. He will
become a professional basketball player. He will be
selected in the second round of the 1975 NBA Draft by
the Golden State Warriors and in the first round of
the 1975 ABA draft by the Spirits of St. Louis. He will
sign with the Warriors for the 1975–76 season and be
named to the NBA All-Rookie Team. He will play only two
seasons with the Warriors and will be allowed to leave
as a free agent before the 1977–78 season, signing with
the Seattle SuperSonics. While with Seattle, he will be
twice selected to the NBA All-Star Game, and will be on
the All-NBA First Team (1982) and All-NBA Second Team
(1980) selection. His style of play will earn him the
nickname "Wizard", and he will lead the Sonics to the
1979 championship while averaging team high 28.6 points
per game in the Finals. While in the prime of his career,
he will sit out the entire 1980–81 season due to a
contract dispute. He will play two more seasons with the
Sonics after that. In 1983, he will sign with the
Washington Bullets. During the 1984-85 season he will
play alongside the similarly named Guy Williams. He will
finish his career with a 17.1 point-per-game scoring
average in a career spanning 12 years from 1975 to 1987.
In 2004 his #1 jersey will be retired by the Sonics.
1957 - President Eisenhower apologizes to the finance minister
of Ghana, Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, after he is refused
service in a Dover, Delaware restaurant.
1961 - Otis M. Smith is appointed to the Michigan Supreme Court
and becomes the first African American on the high
court.
1966 - Darren Carrington is born in the Bronx, New York. He will
become a National Footbal League safety who will play 8
seasons for five different teams. He will start in Super
Bowl XXIX for the San Diego Chargers and will be the
Denver Broncos kick returner in Super Bowl XXIV, which
he finishes with a franchise-record 6 kickoff returns
(now shared with Glyn Milburn and Reuben Droughns) for
146 yards, including a 39-yard return that set up the
Broncos only touchdown of the game. His best season will
be in 1993, when he intercepts 7 passes and returns them
for 104 yards. He will be selected by the Jacksonville
Jaguars in the 1995 NFL Expansion Draft. In his eight NFL
seasons, he will intercept 22 passes and return them for
377 yards and a touchdown. He will also return 6 kickoffs
for 176 yards. As of 2017's NFL off-season, he will hold
the Broncos franchise record for most kick returns in a
playoff game (6 in the 1989 Super Bowl) and average yards
per return in a single post-season (24.63 in 1989). After
he retires from football, he will become the marriage and
parenting pastor for the Rock Church in San Diego,
California.
1966 - Derrick Wayne McKey is born in Meridian, Mississippi. He
will become a professional basketball player who will play
most of his National Basketball Association (NBA) career at
the small forward and the power forward positions. He will
declare for the NBA after his junior season at the University
of Alabama and will be selected by the Seattle SuperSonics
with the ninth overall pick of the 1987 NBA draft, ahead of,
notably, Reggie Miller, Horace Grant and Reggie Lewis. In the
1988–89 season, he will average 15.9 PPG, his best scoring
average in a season. He will spend the following six seasons
in Seattle, where he will be known as one third of the "Big
Mac" team of the late 1980s and early 1990s Seattle
SuperSonics, the others being Nate McMillan and Xavier
McDaniel. At the start of the 1993–94 NBA season he will be
traded to the Indiana Pacers along with teammate Gerald
Paddio for Detlef Schrempf. After years of playoff
disappointments, he and the Pacers will finally reach the
NBA Finals in 2000, before losing to the Los Angeles Lakers.
He will then spend the 2001–2002 season, the last of his
career, with the Philadelphia 76ers.
1967 - Willie Clark Davis is born in Little Rock, Arkansas. He will
become a wide receiver who will play for eight seasons in the
National Football League for the Kansas City Chiefs, the
Houston Oilers, and the Tennessee Titans. After retiring from
footbal, he will become a scout for the Chiefs.
1968 - Christopher Ofili, CBE, is born in Manchester, England. He will
become a Turner Prize-winning painter who will be best known
for his paintings incorporating elephant dung. He will be one
of the Young British Artists. Since 2005, he will live and
work in Trinidad and Tobago, where he will reside in Port of
Spain. He will also live and work in London and Brooklyn.
1978 - Congressman Ralph H. Metcalfe joins the ancestors in
Chicago at the age of 68.
1979 - Mya Marie Harrison is born in Washington, D.C. She will become a
singer, songwriter, producer, and actress. Born into a musical
family, before entering the music industry she will appear on
BET's Teen Summit. Signed in 1996 with Interscope Records, she
will release her eponymous debut album in April 1998. A critical
and commercial success, the album will produce her first top ten
single "It's All About Me." Subsequent singles, "Ghetto Supastar
(That Is What You Are)" and "Take Me There" continue to raise
her profile and attained chart success worldwide, with the former
garnering her first Grammy nomination. Fear of Flying, her
sophomore album, was released in April 2000 and became a worldwide
success, boosted by the success of its singles "Case of the Ex"
and "Free." She will continue her rise to prominence in 2002, when
she won her first Grammy Award in the category for Best Pop
Collaboration with Vocals for her rendition of Labelle's 1975 hit
"Lady Marmalade" alongside with Pink, Christina Aguilera and Lil'
Kim. Taking a more active role in the production of her music, she
released her third studio album, the eccentric Moodring, in July
2003. The album produced the single "My Love Is Like...Wo" and was
certified gold by the RIAA. Following a label change and a delay
in her fourth studio album, she went independent and recorded two
exclusive albums for the Japanese music market, Sugar & Spice
(2008) and K.I.S.S. (Keep It Sexy & Simple) (2011). In between
recording those two albums, she launched her own independent
record label Planet 9 and competed in Dancing with the Stars –
season nine; finishing in second place. Now fully independent, she
continues to regularly release music. Beginning in 2014, she
released a trio of R&B-rooted EPs, With Love (2014), Sweet XVI
(2014), and Love Elevation Suite (2015). In 2016, she released her
seventh album, the Grammy nominated Smoove Jones. The follow-up,
TKO (The Knock Out) arrived in April 2018 to commemorate the
twentieth anniversary of her debut album. Aside from a music
career, she branched out into acting; making her feature-film debut
in 1999's thriller In Too Deep starring LL Cool J and Omar Epps.
She continued to score supporting roles in films such as Chicago
(2002), Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights (2004), Shall We Dance? (2004),
and Cursed (2005). She has endorsed several brands such as Coca-Cola,
Gap, Iceberg, Tommy Hilfiger, and Motorola. Her contribution to music
has earned her many accolades in the fields of pop and R&B music
categories. In 2009, Billboard listed Mýa as one of their Hot 100
Artists of the 2000s; placing her in the 97th position. As of October
2009, she has sold over 3.2 million albums in the U.S. and 7 million
albums worldwide.
1989 - South African President F.W. de Klerk announces that
eight prominent political prisoners, including African
National Congress official Walter Sisulu, would be
unconditionally freed, but that Nelson Mandela would
remain imprisoned.
2015 - The Million Man March in Washington marks its 20th anniversary.
Men from across the country travel to Washington, DC to
commemorate the historic moment. “Justice Or Else” is the
poignant and powerful theme as Minister Louis Farrakhan convenes
this 20th anniversary gathering in the Nation’s Capitol. The
official facebook page for the anniversary march is:
https://www.facebook.com/MillionManMarch20th .
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