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* Today in Black History - October 18 *
1926 - Charles Edward Berry is born in St. Louis, Missouri. He will become
one of the foremost legends in rock and roll and known as "Chuck"
Berry. In the early Fifties, Berry will lead a popular blues trio
by night and work as a beautician by day. After befriending Muddy
Waters, he will be introduced to Leonard Chess of Chess Records,
who signs him to a recording contract. Chuck Berry will also be
successful in crossing over to the largely white pop market. His
hits will include "Maybellene," "Rock and Roll Music," "School
Days," "Johnny B. Goode," "Sweet Little Sixteen," "No Particular
Place to Go," "You Never Can Tell," "Promised Land," and "My
Ding-a-Ling." He will inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
in 1986.
1945 - Paul Robeson, actor, singer, athlete and activist, receives the
NAACP's Spingarn Medal,
1961 - Wynton Marsalis is born in New Orleans, Louisiana. A jazz
trumpeter from the famous Marsalis family, which includes
father Ellis and brothers Branford and Delfayo, he will at 19,
become a member of Art Blakely's Jazz Messengers and in 1984
be the first musician to win Grammys for jazz and classical
music recordings simultaneously.
1973 - "Raisin", a musical adaptation of the Lorraine Hansberry play,
"A Raisin in the Sun", opens on Broadway. It marks the debut
of Debbie Allen in the role of Beneatha Younger and will act
as the catalyst for her further success in television and
choreography.
* Today in Black History - October 19 *
1924 - "From Dixie to Broadway" premieres at the Broadhurst Theatre
in New York City. The music is written by Will Vodery, an
African American, who arranged music for the Ziegfeld Follies
for 23 years.
1944 - Peter Tosh is born in Westmoreland, Jamaica. He will become
a founding father of reggae music and be part of the song
writing magic of the Wailers, Bob Marley's group. He will join
the ancestors in 1987.
1960 - Jennifer Holiday is born. She will become a singer and actress
and will have her first big break as a star in the Broadway
production of "Dream Girls" in 1981.
* Today in Black History - October 21 *
1917 - John Birks ("Dizzy") Gillespie is born in Cheraw, South Carolina.
He will, with Charlie Parker and Theolonious Monk, be the founder
of the revolutionary bebop movement in the very early 1940's.
His music accomplishments will include formation of the Dee Gee
and Verve labels. He will perform in clubs and concert halls in
Harlem, Canada and Europe. His music will earn him a Grammy
Award in 1974 and 1980.
* Today in Black History - October 22 *
1854 - James Bland is born in Flushing, New York. He will write over
700 songs including "Oh, Dem Golden Slippers" and "Carry Me
Back to Old Virginny." The latter song will be selected in
1940 as the state song of Virginia, the state's legislators
little knowing the identity and race of its composer. Virginia
will decide to change their state song in the late 1990s due to
protest from civil rights activists who say that the song
glorifies slavery and is inappropriate.
* Today in Black History - October 23 *
1951 - The NAACP pickets the Stork Club in support of Josephine Baker,
who had been refused admission to the club a week earlier.
After a city-convened special committee calls Baker's charges
unfounded, Thurgood Marshall will call the findings a "complete
and shameless whitewash of the long-established and well-known
discriminatory policies of the Stork Club."
1966 - "Supremes" Album Tops U.S. Charts. The record "Supremes A Go Go"
becomes the top-selling LP album in the U.S. It is the first
album by an all-female group to reach that position. One of the
most successful groups of its kind, the Supremes, fronted by
Diana Ross, will have seven albums reach the top 10 during the
1960s.
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