*                    Today in Black History - March 25               *

1807 - The British Parliament abolishes the African slave trade.

1843 - African American explorer Dodson sets out in search of the
        Northwest Passage.

1910 - The Liberian Commission recommends financial aid to Liberia and
        the establishment of a U.S. Navy coaling station in the African
        country.

1931 - Ida B. Wells-Barnett, journalist, militant African American
        rights and anti-lynching advocate, and a founder of the NAACP,
        dies in Chicago at the age of 78.

1931 - Nine African American youths are arrested in Scottsboro, Alabama,
        for allegedly raping two white women.  Although they will be
        quickly convicted, in a trial that outraged African Americans and
        much of the nation, the case will be appealed and the "Scottsboro
        Boys" will be retried several times.

1939 - Toni Cade Bambara is born in New York City.  She will become a
        noted writer of such fiction as "Gorilla," "My Love," and "The
        Salt Eaters."

1942 - Aretha Franklin is born in Memphis, Tennessee.  From her first
        singing experiences in her father's church through a singing
        career and 21 gold records, she will earn the title, "Queen of
        Soul."  She will be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
        in 1987.

1965 - The Selma-to-Montgomery march ended with rally of some fifty
        thousand at Alabama capitol.  One of the marchers, a white
        civil rights worker named Viola Liuzzo, was shot to death on
        U.S. Highway 80 after the rally by white terrorists.  Three
        Klansmen are convicted of violating her civil rights and
        sentenced to ten years in prison.

1967 - Debi Thomas is born.  After being raised in San Jose, California
        by her mother(who shuttled her back and forth between home,
        school and practice at the rate of 3,000 miles per month), she
        will become the first African American to win the world figure
        skating championship (1986).  She will later become the first
        African American to win a medal in the Winter Olympics (Bronze
        Medal in Figure Skating - February 27, 1988).

1975 - Salem Poor, who fought alongside other colonists during the
        Battle of Bunker Hill, is honored as one of four "Contributors
        to the Cause," a commemorative issue of the U.S. Postal Service.

1991 - Whoopi Goldberg wins the Academy Award for best actress in a
        supporting role for "Ghost." Also winning an Oscar is Russell
        Williams II, for best sound editing for the movie "Dances with
        Wolves."  It is Williams's second Oscar in a row (the first was
        for "Glory"), a record for an African American.

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