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* Today in Black History - March 19 *
1867 - Congressman Thaddeus Stevens calls up resolution providing for
the enforcement of the Second Confiscation Act of July, 1962.
The measure, which provides for the distribution of public and
confiscated land to the freedmen, is defeated.
1872 - T.J. Boyd, inventor, awarded patent for apparatus for detaching
horses from carriages.
1930 - Ornette Coleman is born in Fort Worth, Texas. He will become a
noted avant-garde jazz saxophonist and composer and cited as
Downbeat Magazine's "Musician of the Year in 1966".
1937 - The Count Basie Orchestra, with vocalists Billie Holiday and
Jimmy Rushing, opens at the Apollo Theatre in Harlem.
1939 - The New Negro Theater is founded in Los Angeles, California, by
Langston Hughes. The company stages as its first performance
Hughes's play, "Don't You Want to be Free?"
1967 - French Somaliland (Djibouti) votes to continue association with
France.
1968 - Students take over the Administration Building at Howard
University demanding resignation of university officials and a
stronger orientation to black culture in the curriculum. It
is the first of many college protests over black studies
programs on African American and white college campuses across
the nation.
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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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