*               Today in Black History - March 26               *

1831 - Richard Allen dies at the age of 71.  He had been nominated by
        author Vernon Loggins for the title, "Father of the Negro."

1872 - Thomas J. Martin is awarded a patent for the fire extinguisher.

1910 - William H. Lewis is appointed assistant attorney general of the
        United States.

1937 - William Hastie is appointed to a federal judgeship in the Virgin
        Islands. With the appointment, Hastie becomes the first African
        American to serve on the federal bench in the U.S. or its
        territories.

1944 - Diana Ross is born in Detroit, Michigan.  Ross, with Mary Wilson
        and Florence Ballard, will form the Supremes in 1961 and have 15
        consecutive smash-hit singles with the group.  Ross will also
        pursue an acting career in such movies as "Lady Sings the Blues"
        and receive a Tony Award for her Broadway show, "An Evening with
        Diana Ross.  Both with the Supremes and as a solo artist, she
        will have more number-one records than any other artist in the
        history of the charts.

1950 - Theodore Pendergrass is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He
        will become a lead singer for Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes
        and pursue an active solo career that will later be temporarily
        interrupted by an auto accident that will leave him paralyzed
        from the chest down.

1991 - The Reverend Emanuel Cleaver becomes the first African American
        mayor of Kansas City, Missouri.  At this time, Kansas City is seventy
        percent white, but he will win the election with 53 percent of the
        vote, while his opponent received forty-seven percent.

1992 - A judge in Indianapolis sentences former heavyweight boxing
        champion Mike Tyson to six years in prison for raping a Miss
        Black America contestant.

1998 - President Clinton stands with President Nelson Mandela in a racially
        integrated South African parliament to salute a country that was
        "truly free and democratic at last."

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