*                 Today in Black History - January 28                *

1858 - John Brown organizes the raid on the federal arsenal at Harper's
        Ferry, West Virginia.  The raid was an attempt to obtain arms
        and ammunition to free African Americans from slavery by force.

1901 - Richmond Barthe' is born in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi.
        Educated at the Art Institute of Chicago, he will begin to
        attain critical acclaim as a sculptor at 26.  His first
        commissions will be of Henry O. Tanner and Toussaint
        L'Ouverture.  He will also become the first African American
        commissioned to produce a bust for the NYU Hall of Fame (of
        Booker T. Washington).

1938 - Crystal Byrd Fauset is elected to the Pennsylvania House of
        Representatives, becoming the first African American woman to
        be elected to a state legislature.

1944 - Matthew Henson is a recipient of a joint medal by Congress for
        his role as co-discoverer of the North Pole.  It is the U.S.
        government's first official recognition of the explorer who
        accompanied Commander Robert Peary on his 1909 expedition.

1958 - Brooklyn Dodger catcher Roy Campanella's career ends when he
        loses control of his car on a slick highway. He will become a
        parapalegic and be confined to a wheelchair the remainder of
        his life.  The accident ends his ten-year playing career with
        the Dodgers, where he had been named the National League's MVP
        three times, but he will remain a part of the Dodgers
        organization for many years.

1970 - Arthur Ashe is denied entry to compete on the U.S. Team for the
        South African Open Tennis Championships due to Ashe's
        sentiments on South Africa's racial policies.

1972 - Scott Joplin's Opera "Treemonisha," published 61 years earlier,
        has its world premiere with Robert Shaw and Katherine Dunham
        directing.

1986 - The space shuttle "Challenger" explodes 73 seconds after lift-off
        at Cape Canaveral, Florida.  One of the seven crew members killed
        is physicist Dr. Ronald McNair, the only African American aboard.

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