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* Today in Black History - October 14 *
1916 - Sophomore tackle and guard Paul Robeson is excluded from the
Rutgers football team when Washington and Lee University refuse
to play against an African American. The exclusion will be
temporary and the young Robeson will go on to be named a
football All-American twice.
1980 - Bob Marley performs in his last concert before his untimely death
from cancer.
* Today in Black History - October 16 *
1990 - Art Blakey, jazz drummer (Jazz Messengers), joins the ancestors,
after a bout with cancer, at the age of 71.
* Today in Black History - October 17 *
1909 - William R. Cole is born in East Orange, New Jersey. He will
become a jazz drummer best known as "Cozy Cole." He will begin
to play professionally as a teenager and will make his first
recording at age 20 with Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers.
Cozy Cole will join Cab Calloway's band in 1939 and will join
CBS radio in 1943 to play in Raymond Scott's Orchestra, becoming
one of the first African American musicians on a network musical
staff. In 1958, Cole will make a solo hit record, "Topsy," that
sells more than a million copies. He will join the ancestors in
1981.
1985 - Legendary jazz and blues singer Alberta Hunter joins the ancestors
in New York City. She achieved fame in Chicago jazz clubs in the
1920's, toured Europe in the 1930's and, after over 20 years of
anonymity as a nurse, returned to performing in 1977.
* 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.
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