*                   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.  A 1969 recipient
        of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Young will speak out against
        government and business' lack of commitment to African Americans.

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, actor ("Passenger 57," "Demolition Man,"  "Money Train",
        "Rising Sun", "Major League", "Sugar Hill",  "White Men Can't Jump"),
        is born.

1969 - Racial 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.

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