*               Today in Black History - March 31               *

1850 - The Massachusetts Supreme Court rejects the argument of Charles
        Sumner in the Boston school integration suit and established the
        "separate but equal" precedent.

1853 - At concert singer Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield's New York debut in
        Metropolitan Hall, African Americans are not allowed to attend.
        Angered and embarrassed at the exclusion of her race, Greenfield
        will perform in a separate concert at the Broadway Tabernacle
        for five African American congregations.

1871 - Jack Johnson, the first African American to be crowned world
        heavyweight boxing champion, is born in Galveston, Texas.  His
        reign lasted from 1908 to 1915.

1930 - President Hoover nominates Judge John J. Parker of North Carolina
        for a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court.  The NAACP launches a
        national campaign against the appointment. Parker is not confirmed
        by the Senate.

1948 - A. Phillip Randolph tells the Senate Armed Services Committee
        that unless segregation and discrimination were banned in draft
        programs he would urge African American youths to resist induction
        by civil disobedience.

1949 - William Grant Still's opera, "Troubled Island" receives its world
        premiere at the New York City Opera.  In addition to marking Robert
        McFerrin's debut as the first African American male to sing with the
        company, the opera is the first ever written by an African American
        to be produced by a major opera company.

1967 - Jimi Hendrix begins his tradition of burning his guitar in London,
        England.

1968 - The provisional government of the Republic of New Africa founded
        in Detroit, Michigan.

1973 - Ken Norton defeats Muhammad Ali in a 12 round split decision in San
        Diego, California.  Norton will break Ali's jaw during the bout.

1980 - Jesse Owens dies in Tucson, Arizona at the age of 66, and President
        Jimmy Carter adds his voice to the tributes that pour in from around
        the world.  Jesse won four gold medals in track at the Berlin Olympics
        in 1936.

1980 - Larry Holmes wins the vacant world heavyweight title by knocking
        out Leroy Jones in the eighth round.

1988 - Toni Morrison wins the Pulitzer Prize for "Beloved," a powerful novel
        of a runaway slave who murders her daughter rather than see her
        raised in slavery.

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