*      Today in Black History - July 31                 *

1874 - Patrick Francis Healy, a Jesuit priest, is inaugurated as president
        of Georgetown University in Washington, DC.  Healy is the first
        African American to head a predominantly white university and is
        credited with the modernization of the university's curriculum and
        the expansion of its campus.

1921 - Whitney Young, Jr. is born in Lincoln Ridge, Kentucky.  He will
        become dean of Atlanta University's School of Social Work before
        becoming executive director of the National Urban League. As its
        leader during the 1960's, he will guide the organization through
        one of the most socially and politically active decades in
        America's history. A 1969 recipient of the Presidential Medal of
        Freedom, Young will speak out against government and business' lack
        of commitment to African Americans. During a visit to Nigeria in
        1971, he will join the ancestors after a swimming accident in Lagos.

1931 - Kenny Burrell is born in Detroit, Michigan. He will become a prolific
        composer and professional musician specializing in the guitar. For
        over forty years, he will be a jazz professional. Kenny, who will
        credit Charlie Christian, Oscar Moore, and Django Reinhardt as
        influences, as well as such bluesmen as T-Bone Walker and Muddy
        Waters, will play on his first major recording session in Detroit
        in 1951 with a Dizzy Gillespie combo that will include John
        Coltrane, Milt Jackson, and Percy Heath. Even though the young
        guitarist will keep heavy company, including that of such other up-
        and-coming Detroiters as Tommy Flanagan, Yusef Lateef, Pepper
        Adams, and Elvin Jones, he will remain in Detroit to study at Wayne
        State University, from which he will earn a B.A. in music
        composition and theory in 1955. He will also study classical guitar
        with Joseph Fava during that period and continue to employ finger-
        style and other techniques. After the mid-Sixties, he will lead his
        own group plus work in "All-Star" settings and will perform with
        college bands and orchestras. He will also perform with
        professional orchestras such as the Detroit Symphony and the
        Buffalo Philharmonic.

1938 - New York Yankees suspend Jake Powell, after he says on Chicago radio
        that he would "hit every colored person in Chicago over the head
        with a club".

1960 - At a New York City meeting of the Nation of Islam, the Honorable
        Elijah Muhammad calls for the creation of a black state in America.

1962 - Wesley Snipes is born in Orlando, Florida.  After growing up in the
        Bronx, New York City, he will become a film actor starring in films
        such as "New Jack City," "Jungle Fever," "Passenger 57,"
        "Demolition Man," "Money Train," "Rising Sun," "Major League,"
        "Sugar Hill," "White Men Can't Jump," and "King of New York."

1969 - Racially motivated disturbances in Baton Rouge cause the governor of
        Louisiana to mobilize the National Guard.

1981 - Attorney Arnette R. Hubbard is installed as the first woman president
        of the National Bar Association, the largest national group of
        African American attorneys, legal scholars, and jurists.  Hubbard
        is a graduate of John Marshall Law School in Chicago and past
        president of the Cook County Bar Association.

1985 - Prince is big at the box-office with the autobiographical story of
        the Minneapolis rock star -- "Purple Rain."  The film grosses $7.7
        million in its first three days of release on 917 movie screens.
        The album of the same name is, at the time, the top LP in the
        United States, as well.

1988 - Willie Stargell, formerly of the Pittsburgh Pirates, becomes the
        200th man inducted into Baseball's Hall of Fame at Cooperstown, New
        York.

1990 - Shoal Creek, a private club in Birmingham, Alabama, that drew
        criticism for being all-white, announces it had accepted a Black
        businessman as an honorary member.

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