*               Today in Black History - February 15                 *

1848 - Sarah Roberts is barred from a white school in Boston,
        Massachusetts.  Her father, Benjamin Roberts, files the first
        school integration suit on her behalf.

1851 - Black abolitionists invade a Boston courtroom and rescue a
        fugitive slave from authorities.

1960 - Darrell Green is born.  He will become a professional football
        player with the Washington Redskins.  He will, for years, be
        a defensive threat and the fastest man in the NFL.

1961 - U.S. and African Nationalists protesting the slaying of Congo
        Premier Patrice Lumumba disrupt United Nations sessions.

1964 - Louis Armstrong's "Hello Dolly," a song the world-renowned
        trumpeter recorded and almost forgot, becomes the number-one
        record on Bill- board's Top 40 charts, replacing The Beatles'
        "I Want to Hold Your Hand."  It is Armstrong's first and
        only number-one record.

1965 - Nat King Cole, singer and pianist, joins the ancestors in Santa
        Monica, California at the age of 45.  He succumbs to lung
        cancer.

1968 - Henry Lewis becomes the first African American to lead a
        symphony orchestra in the United States when he is named
        director of the New Jersey Symphony.

1969 - Noted historian John Henrik Clarke, speaking before the Jewish
        Currents Conference in New York City, says, "You cannot
        subjugate a man and recognize his humanity, his history...so
        systematically you must take this away from him.  You begin by
        telling lies about the man's role in  history."

1978 - Leon Spinks defeats Muhammad Ali for the world heavyweight
        boxing championship.

1992 - At memorial services attended by over 1,600 in Memphis, Tennessee,
        author Alex Haley ("Roots," "Autobiography of Malcolm X") is
        eulogized by his wife, who says, "Thank you, Alex, you have
        helped us know who we truly are."

1992 - NAACP Executive Director, Benjamin L. Hooks, announces that he
        would retire from the organization in 1993.  He will head the
        organization for sixteen years.

1999 - The body of Amadou Diallo, an unarmed West African gunned down
        by New York City police, is returned to his native Guinea.

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