From: hutchnsn@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Blak Panther)
Subject: OURSTORY FOR APRIL
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 05:22:32 GMT

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  APRIL                  EVENT
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     1                  - 1930, Zawditu, the first modern reigning female
                          monarch of Ethiopia, dies.

                        - 1967, Formation of the Black Panther Party for 
                          self-defense and liberation.


     2                  - 1971, Indigenous Poeples and Chicanos seize land and
                          establish D/Q University near Sacramento, CA.

                        - 1980, Start of open revolt by Afrikans in Brixton
                          England against racism.

                        - 1984, Coach John Thompson of Georgetown University 
                          becomes the first Blak coach to win the NCAA
                          tournament.
                          

     3                  - 1950, Dr. Carter G. Woodson, "The Father of Blak
                          History", dies in Washington D.C.
                         
                        
     4                  - 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated while
                          organizing workers in Memphis, TN.

                        - 1988, Angola, SWAPO and Cuba defeat South Africa, 
                          the CIA and UNITA at Cuito Canavale.  Marks the first
                          time since the Russo-Jananesse war that a primarily
                          People of Color force/power defeats a primarily 
                          white force/power.

                        - Independence Day - Republic of Senegal.


     5                  - 1856, Booker Tallifero Washington, educator, born in
                          Hale's Ford, Va.


     6                  - 1909, Mathew Henson, explorer, leads a party of six
                          to reach the North Pole.

                        - 1959, Pan-Africanist Congress of Azania (PAC) founded
                          by Mangaliso Robert Sobukwe and others.


     7                  - 1712, Slave revolt in New York City, 2 Afrikans and 9
                          Europeans executed.

                        - 1743, Toussaint L'Ouverture born a slave in Haiti.
                   
                        - 1915, Billie Holiday, blues singer, born in
                          Baltimore, Md.


     8                  - 1787, First Afrikans leave England to return home to
                          Afrika and establish settlement in Sirra Leone.

                        - 1974, Henry "Hank" Aaron breaks Babe Ruth's Major
                          League record with 715 home runs.


     9                  - 1898, Paul Bustill Robeson born in Princeton, N.J.
                          

    10                  - 1938, Nana Annor Adjaye, Pan-Afrikanist, dies in 
                          West Nzima, Ghana.

                        - 1947, First meeting of the Pan African Trade Union
                          in Dakar, Senegal.

                        - 1947, Jackie Robinson becomes the first Blak player
                          in Major League baseball (Brooklyn Dodgers).

                        - 1958, W.C. Handy, "Father of the Blues," composer and
                          musician, dies at the age of 84.

                        - 1975, Josephine Baker, singer and entertainer, dies
                          at the age of 68.


    11                  - 1881, Spelman College, an institute sponsored by the
                          John D. Rockerfeller family (Trilateral Commission,
                          Council on Foreign Relations, etc.), opened for Blak
                          women in Atlanta, Ga.

                        - 1977, France sends over 1500 Moroccan troops to Zaire
                          to stop rebelion in Shaba province.

                        - 1981, Massive uprising in Brixton, London begins
                          against police harassment and racism.
             

    12                  - 1787, Free African Society founded in Philadelphia.

                        - 1898, Sir Grantly H. Adams, political leader,
                          president of Barbados, born.


    13                  - 1715, Yamousee begin wars against European settlers
                          in North Amerikkka.

                        - 1804, William Henry Lane ("Juba") perfects the tap 
                          dance.


    14                  - 1915, James Hutton Brew, "Pioneer of West Afrikan
                          Journalism," dies.

                        - 1928, Robert Mugabe, Prime Minister of Zimbabwe, born.
                          
                          
    15                  - 1958, African Freedom Day declared at the All-African
                          People's Conference in Accra, Ghana.

                        - 198?, U.S. bombs Libya, killing more than 100
                          innocent civilians.


    16                  - 1862, Slavery abolished in the District of Columbia.
                          
                        - 1966, Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) begins 
                          armed struggle.

 
    17                  - 1758, Francis Williams, first Blak U.S. college 
                          graduate, publishes a poem book in Latin.

                        - 1820, the first of free U.S. Blaks arrive in Liberia,
                          W. Afrika.
                          
                        - 1960, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
                          formed to coordinate the student movement in the U.S.

                        - 1961, Cuba crushes CIA organized Bay of Pigs
                          invasion (orchestrated by your very own JFK).


    18                  - 1980, Zimbabwe seizes independence under the
                          leadership of the Patriotic Frint of ZANU/ZAPU.

                        - Independence Day - Zimbabwe.


    19                  - 1960, Founding of the South West Africa People's 
                          Organization (SWAPO).
 
                        - Republic Day - Sierra Leone.
                          

    20                  - 


    21                  - 1966, Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie comes to
                          Kingston, Jamaica.


    22                  - 1922, Charles Mingus, jazz musician, born.


    23                  - 1828, Shaka, the great Zulu king, killed.

                        - 1872, Charlotte Ray is the first Blak woman to 
                          graduate from law school in this country (Howard U.).

                        - 1971, William V.S. Tubman, president of Liberia, dies.


    24                  - 1884, The Medico-Chirugical Society, the oldest Blak
                          medical association, is organized in Wahington D.C.

                        - 1955, Non-Alligned movement of world nations formed.

                        - 1965, president Johnson orders invasion of Santo
                          Domingo.  42,000 U.S. troops crush a legitimate
                          uprising against a corrupt regime.
                          

    25                  - 1878, 206 Afrikans, former U.S. slaves, settle in
                          Liberia.

                        - 1918, Ella Fitzgerald, "First Lady of Song," born.


    26                  - 


    27                  - 1803, Toussaint L'Ouverture, Afrikan leader of
                          Haiti's independence, dies in Paris Prison.

                        - 1883, Hubert Harrison, writer, freedom fighter, born
                          in St. Croix.

                        - 1972, Kwame Nkrumah, ousted President of Ghana and 
                          co-President of Guinea with Ahmed Sekou Toure and
                          chief architect of modern Pan-Afrikanism, dies.


    28                  - 1966, Zimbabwe nationalists begin armed struggle 
                          against European minority regime.

                        - 1967, Muhammad Ali stripped of his Heavyweight boxing
                          title for his refusal to fight in the Vietnam war.


    29                  - 1868, Red Cloud leads Lakota people against U.S. 
                          regaining Powder River Road Area.

                        - 1899, Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington, world famous
                          musician, born in Washington D.C.

                        - 1967, Ms. Helen Claytor elected as the President of
                          the YWCA, the organization's first Blak president.

                        - 1983, Harlod Washington sworn in as Chicago's first
                          Blak Mayor.


    30                  - 1843, Blaks participate in a national political
                          convention for the first time.

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       Hetep.
           
          -BP


*SOJOURNER*HUEY*HARRIET*MALCOLM*ROSA*MARCUS*IDA*FRED H.*ASSATA*BIKO*FANNIE LOU*

     "This is a real revolution.  Revolution is always based on land.
Revolution is never based on begging somebody for an integrated cup of coffee.
Revolutions are never fought by turning the other cheek.  Revolutions are never
based upon love-your-enemy and pray-for-those-who-spitefully-use-you.  And
revolutions are never waged singing "We Shall Overcome."  Revolutions are based
upon bloodshed.  Revolutions are never compromising.  Revolutions are never
based upon negotiations.  Revolutions are never based upon any kind of
tokenism whatsoever.  Revolutions are never even based upon that which is 
begging a corrupt society or a corrupt system to accept us into it.  
Revolutions overturn systems.  And there is no system on this earth which has 
proven itself more corrupt, more criminal, than this system that in 1964 still 
colonizes 22 million African-Americans, still enslaves 22 million 
Afro-Americans"

                                               Malcolm X
                                               "The Black Revolution"
                                               8 April, 1964
                                               Palm Gardens, New York

**SHAKA*CANDACE*AMENHOTEP IV*NEFERTARI*TAHARQA*HATSHEPSUT*IMHOTEP*NZINGA*MENES**
-- 
                        PAMOJA TUTASHINDA!
                      (Together We will win!)
                       IZWE LETHU I AFRIKA!
                       (Afrika is Our land!)
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