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Subject: 0123 - Today in Black History - January 23
1943 - Duke Ellington's band plays for a black-tie crowd at Carnegie
Hall in New York City. It is the first of what will become an
annual series of concerts for 'The Duke'.
1976 - Paul Robeson joins the ancestors, as the result of a stroke, in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He had been a world-renown actor and
singer. He was perhaps the best known and most widely respected
African American of the 1930s and 1940s. Robeson was also a
staunch supporter of the Soviet Union, and a man, later in his
life, widely vilified and censored for his frankness and
unyielding views on issues to which public opinion ran contrary.
As a young man, Robeson was virile, charismatic, eloquent, and
powerful. He learned to speak more than 20 languages in order to
break down the barriers of race and ignorance throughout the world,
and yet, as Sterling Stuckey pointed out in the "New York Times
Book Review," for the last 25 years of his life his was "a great
whisper and a greater silence in black America."
1986 - The first annual induction ceremony for the Rock 'N' Roll Hall
of Fame is held in New York City. Among those inducted were
Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, and Fats Domino.
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