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* Today in Black History - March 30 *
1946 - "St. Louis Woman" opens on Broadway. Based on a book by Arna
Bontemps and Countee Cullen from Bontemps's novel "God Sends
Sunday," the play brought wide attention to supporting actress
Pearl Bailey, who stopped the show nightly with her renditions
of "Legalize My Name" and "A Woman's Prerogative."
* Today in Black History - March 31 *
1853 - At concert singer Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield's New York debut in
Metropolitan Hall, African Americans are not allowed to attend.
Angered and embarrassed at the exclusion of her race, Greenfield
will perform in a separate concert at the Broadway Tabernacle
for five African American congregations.
1949 - William Grant Still's opera, "Troubled Island" receives its world
premiere at the New York City Opera. In addition to marking Robert
McFerrin's debut as the first African American male to sing with
the company, the opera is the first ever written by an African
American to be produced by a major opera company.
1967 - Jimi Hendrix begins the tradition of burning his guitar in London,
England.
* Today in Black History - April 1 *
1895 - Alberta Hunter is born in Memphis, Tennessee. She will run away
from home at the age of twelve and go to Chicago, Illinois to
become a Blues singer. She will work in a variety of clubs until
the violence in the Chicago club scene prompts her to move to New
York City. There she will record for a variety of blues labels.
She will write a lot of her own songs and songs for other
performers. Her song "Down Hearted Blues," will become Bessie
Smith's first record in 1923. She will perform in Europe and
America until 1956, when she will retire from performing. She
will work for more than twenty years as a nurse in a New York
hospital and in 1977, at the age of 82, surprisingly return to
the stage. She will perform until she joins the ancestors in
1984.
1917 - Scott Joplin joins the ancestors in New York City. One of the early
developers of ragtime and the author of "Maple Leaf Rag," Joplin
also created several rag-time and grand operas, the most noteworthy
of which, "Treemonisha," consumed his later years in an attempt to
have it published and performed.
1939 - Rudolph Bernard Isley is born in Cincinnati, Ohio. He will become
a singer at the age of six with his brothers O'Kelly, Ronald and
Vernon Isley and form the group, The Isley Brothers. They will
leave Cincinnati in 1956 and go to New York City to pursue their
musical career. Rudolph and his brothers will obtain fame and
success nationally and internationally earning numerous platinum
and gold albums which contain such classic hits as "Shout," "Twist
and Shout," "It's Your Thing," "Who's That Lady," "Fight the
Power," "For the Love of You," "Harvest For The World," "Live It
Up," "Footsteps in the Dark," "Work to Do," "Don't Say Good Night"
and many others.
1951 - Oscar Micheaux joins the ancestors in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Micheaux formed his own film production company, Oscar Micheaux
Corporation, to produce his novel "The Homesteader" and over 30
other movies, notably "Birthright," which was adapted from a novel
by Pulitzer Prize-winning author T.S. Stribling, and "Body and
Soul," which marked the film debut of Paul Robeson.
1966 - The first World Festival of Negro Arts opens in Dakar, Senegal, with
the U.S. African American delegation having one of the largest
number of representatives. First prizes are won by poet Robert
Hayden, engraver William Majors, actors Ivan Dixon and Abbey
Lincoln, gospel singer Mahalia Jackson, jazz trumpeter Louis
Armstrong, and sociologist Kenneth Clark.
1984 - Marvin Gaye joins the ancestors after being shot to death by his
father, Marvin Gaye, Sr. in Los Angeles, California, one day before
his forty-fifth birthday. The elder Gaye will plead guilty to
voluntary manslaughter, and receive probation. Marvin Gaye was one
of the most talented soul singers of all time. Unlike most soul
greats, Gaye's artistic inclinations evolved over the course of
three decades, moving from hard-driving soul-pop to funk and dance
grooves.
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