*               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 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.

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        The source for these facts are "Encyclopedia Britannica,
        "InfoBeat," "I, Too, Sing America - The African American
        Book of Days," and independent research by the
        Information Man.
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