1932
Pan-African Chronology
Pan-African Chronology
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January
January 5
*Johnny Adams, a blues, jazz and gospel singer, known as "The Tan Canary", was born in New Orleans, Louisiana.
January 15
*Cleven Goudeau, an award-winning cartoonist, was born in Hillister, Texas.
January 26
*Clement Dodd, a Jamaican record producer known for "finding" Bob Marley, was born in Kingston, Jamaica.
February 2
*Duke Ellington and his orchestra first recorded the classic jazz tune "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)."
February 16
*Alhaji Ahmad Kabbah, the third President of Sierra Leone, was born in Pendembu, Kailahun District, Sierra Leone.
February 24
*Brazil gave women the right to vote.
March 4
*Miriam Makeba, a South African singer and civil rights activist, was born in Prospect Township, Johannesburg, South Africa.
*James Weldon Johnson, educator, lyricist, consul, author, editor, poet, and civil rights activist, was appointed to teach creative writing at Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee, where he held the Adam K. Spence Chair of Creative Literature and Writing, becoming the first poet to teach creative writing at a black college.
January 5
*Johnny Adams, a blues, jazz and gospel singer, known as "The Tan Canary", was born in New Orleans, Louisiana.
January 15
*Cleven Goudeau, an award-winning cartoonist, was born in Hillister, Texas.
January 26
*Clement Dodd, a Jamaican record producer known for "finding" Bob Marley, was born in Kingston, Jamaica.
February 2
*Duke Ellington and his orchestra first recorded the classic jazz tune "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)."
February 16
*Alhaji Ahmad Kabbah, the third President of Sierra Leone, was born in Pendembu, Kailahun District, Sierra Leone.
February 24
*Jacquelyne Johnson Jackson, a sociologist who worked on issues that affect elderly minority populations and who, in 1968, became the first full-time African American faculty member at Duke University Medical School, was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina (February 24). Jackson was also the first woman chair of the Association of Black Sociologists. Jackson received her Ph.D. in 1960, becoming the first African American woman to earn the degree in sociology from Ohio State University.
March 4
*Miriam Makeba, a South African singer and civil rights activist, was born in Prospect Township, Johannesburg, South Africa.
March 12
*Civil rights leader Andrew Young was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. Young became the first African American United Nations ambassador and Mayor of Atlanta.
March 25
*Roger Wilkins, a civil rights leader, professor of history and journalist, was born in Kansas City, Missouri.
April 2
*Roger Wilkins, a civil rights leader, professor of history and journalist, was born in Kansas City, Missouri.
April 2
*Bill Pickett, one of the most famous performing cowboys of his day, died (April 2). Publicly acclaimed by President Theodore Roosevelt, Pickett performed throughout Europe and the United States, where he was often assisted by two young European American cowboys, Tom Mix and Will Rogers.
April 4
*Charles Powell, a professional football player, was born.
April 9
*Solly Walker, a basketball player who was St. John’s University’s first African American basketball player and who broke another racial barrier when in 1951 he played in a game against the University of Kentucky on its home court, was born in South Carolina.
April 17
*Haile Selassie announced an anti-slavery law in Abyssinia (Ethiopia).
April 22
*Ruth Love, an educator who became the Superintendent for the Oakland (California) and Chicago schools, was born in Lawton, Oklahoma.
May 2
*The United States Supreme Court decided Nixon v. Condon.
May 14
*Gwen Giles, the first African-American woman elected to the state senate of Missouri, was born in Atlanta, Georgia.
May 20
*James Miley, an early jazz trumpet and cornet player who was a collaborator of the young Duke Ellington, died on Welfare Island, New York.
May 25
*K. C. Jones, a professional basketball player and coach, was born in Taylor, Texas.
May 29
*Alan Shorter, a free jazz trumpet and flugelhorn player, and the older brother of Grammy winning composer and saxophone player Wayne Shorter, was born in Newark, New Jersey.
June 7
*Harold Floyd "Tina" Brooks, a hard bop, blues and funk tenor saxophonist and composer, was born in Fayetteville, North Carolina.
June 21
*O.C. Smith (b. Ocie Lee Smith), a rhythm and blues and jazz recording artist, was born in Mansfield, Louisiana. His recording of "Little Green Apples" went to number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1968 and sold over one million records.
*Major Taylor, a champion cyclist, died in Chicago, Illinois.
July 4
*Otis Young, the second African American to co-star in a television western, was born in Providence, Rhode Island.
July 12
*Otis Davis, the 1960 Olympic 400 meter run champion, was born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
July 16
April 9
*Solly Walker, a basketball player who was St. John’s University’s first African American basketball player and who broke another racial barrier when in 1951 he played in a game against the University of Kentucky on its home court, was born in South Carolina.
April 17
*Haile Selassie announced an anti-slavery law in Abyssinia (Ethiopia).
April 22
*Ruth Love, an educator who became the Superintendent for the Oakland (California) and Chicago schools, was born in Lawton, Oklahoma.
May 2
*The United States Supreme Court decided Nixon v. Condon.
May 14
*Gwen Giles, the first African-American woman elected to the state senate of Missouri, was born in Atlanta, Georgia.
May 20
*James Miley, an early jazz trumpet and cornet player who was a collaborator of the young Duke Ellington, died on Welfare Island, New York.
May 25
*K. C. Jones, a professional basketball player and coach, was born in Taylor, Texas.
May 29
*Alan Shorter, a free jazz trumpet and flugelhorn player, and the older brother of Grammy winning composer and saxophone player Wayne Shorter, was born in Newark, New Jersey.
June 7
*Harold Floyd "Tina" Brooks, a hard bop, blues and funk tenor saxophonist and composer, was born in Fayetteville, North Carolina.
June 21
*O.C. Smith (b. Ocie Lee Smith), a rhythm and blues and jazz recording artist, was born in Mansfield, Louisiana. His recording of "Little Green Apples" went to number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1968 and sold over one million records.
*Major Taylor, a champion cyclist, died in Chicago, Illinois.
July 4
*Otis Young, the second African American to co-star in a television western, was born in Providence, Rhode Island.
July 12
*Otis Davis, the 1960 Olympic 400 meter run champion, was born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
July 16
*Poet Mari Evans was born in Toledo, Ohio. Her most famous works would include I Am a Black Woman and Nightstar: 1973-78.
July 21
*Ernest Warlick, a tight end for the American Football League Champion Buffalo Bills of 1964 and 1965, was born in Hickory, North Carolina.
August 7
*Abebe Bikila, the 1960 and 1964 Olympic marathon champion, was born in Jato, Abyssinia.
July 21
*Ernest Warlick, a tight end for the American Football League Champion Buffalo Bills of 1964 and 1965, was born in Hickory, North Carolina.
August 7
*Abebe Bikila, the 1960 and 1964 Olympic marathon champion, was born in Jato, Abyssinia.
August 18
August 21
*Eddie Williams, the president of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies (JCPES), a think tank focused on African American issues, was born in Memphis, Tennessee.
*Melvin Van Peebles, a motion picture producer and director, was born in Chicago. His films include Watermelon Man, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasss Song, and Putney Swope.
September 22
*Adolpho A. Birch, Jr., the first African American to serve as Chief Justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court, was born in Washington, D. C.
October 2
*Maury Wills, a professional baseball player who stole a then Major League Baseball record 104 bases in 1962, was born in Washington, D. C.
September 22
*Adolpho A. Birch, Jr., the first African American to serve as Chief Justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court, was born in Washington, D. C.
October 2
*Maury Wills, a professional baseball player who stole a then Major League Baseball record 104 bases in 1962, was born in Washington, D. C.
October 5
*Yvonne Brathwaite Burke, the first African-American congresswoman from California and the first woman to chair the Congressional Black Caucus, was born in Los Angeles, California.
October 12
*Comedian and civil rights activist Richard "Dick" Gregory was born in Saint Louis, Missouri.
October 16
October 20
*Roosevelt Brown, an offensive lineman for the National Football League New York Giants who was ranked 57 on The Sporting News' list of the 100 Greatest Football Players, was born in Charlottesville, Virginia.
November 7
*The United States Supreme Court decided Powell v. Alabama, overturning the convictions of the Scottsboro Boys.
October 16
*Henry Lewis, the first African American conductor of a leading American symphony orchestra, was born in Los Angeles, California.
*Roosevelt Brown, an offensive lineman for the National Football League New York Giants who was ranked 57 on The Sporting News' list of the 100 Greatest Football Players, was born in Charlottesville, Virginia.
November 7
*The United States Supreme Court decided Powell v. Alabama, overturning the convictions of the Scottsboro Boys.
November 8
*Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected President of the United States, promising a "New Deal" to all in the Depression-ridden nation.
November 15
*Clyde McPhatter, a singer who founded the Drifters singing group and who became the first double inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, was born in Durham, North Carolina.
November 15
*Clyde McPhatter, a singer who founded the Drifters singing group and who became the first double inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, was born in Durham, North Carolina.
*Charles Chesnutt, an author best known for his novels and stories exploring complex issues of racial and social identity in the post-Civil War South, died in Cleveland, Ohio.
December 5
*Rhythm and blues singer "Little Richard" Penniman, a formative figure in rock 'n' roll music, was born in Macon, Georgia.
December 10
*Bob Cranshaw, a jazz bassist known for being the sole session bassist to Sesame Street and The Electric Company songwriter and composer Joe Raposo, was born in Chicago, Illinois.
December 14
*Etienne Tshisekedi, a leader of the Union for Democracy and Social Progress in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire), was born in Luluabourg.
December 17
*German was made an official language in South-West Africa (Namibia) alongside English and Afrikaans.
December 27
*South Africa forbade all export of gold.
December 28
*Nichelle Nichols, an actress who gained fame playing Lieutenant Uhura in the original Star Trek television series and movies, was born in Robbins, Illinois.
December 10
*Bob Cranshaw, a jazz bassist known for being the sole session bassist to Sesame Street and The Electric Company songwriter and composer Joe Raposo, was born in Chicago, Illinois.
December 14
*Etienne Tshisekedi, a leader of the Union for Democracy and Social Progress in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire), was born in Luluabourg.
December 17
*German was made an official language in South-West Africa (Namibia) alongside English and Afrikaans.
December 27
*South Africa forbade all export of gold.
December 28
*Nichelle Nichols, an actress who gained fame playing Lieutenant Uhura in the original Star Trek television series and movies, was born in Robbins, Illinois.
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