*		    Today in Black History - March 12		     *

1791 - Benjamin Banneker and Pierre Charles L'Enfant are commissioned to 
	plan and develop Washington, DC. 

1868 - Great Britain gives Basutoland, the status of protectorate at the 
	request of King Moshweshwe.  The request of protection was to 
	prevent attacks by the Cape Colony.

1877 - The British annex Walvis Bay, an important deep water port in South 
	West Africa.

1888 - Hall Johnson is born in Athens, Georgia.  In 1925, he will organize
	and direct the Hall Johnson Choir as well as have significant 
	success as an arranger.  One of his early stage successes will be 
	as choral director for the 1930 Broadway play "The Green Pastures" 
	and the 1933 play, "Run Little Chillun," for which he will write 
	the book and music. Johnson and his choir will move to Hollywood in 
	1936 to make the film version of "The Green Pastures."

1926 - The Savoy Ballroom, nicknamed the "Home of Happy Feet," opens in New 
	York City.

1932 - Andrew Young is born in New Orleans, Louisiana.  He will become a 
	minister, influential leader in the civil rights movement, first 
	African American ambassador to the United Nations, and mayor of 
	Atlanta, Georgia.

1936 - Virginia Hamilton is born in Yellow Springs, Ohio. She will become 
	an award-winning author of juvenile fiction including "House of Dies

	Drear," "M.C. Higgins the Great," and "Sweet Whispers, Brother
Rush."

1940 - Al Jarreau is born.  He will become a singer and will be known for
his recording of the theme for the television show, "Moonlighting".  
	Al Jarreau will become the first vocalist in musical history to win
Grammy Awards in three different categories (Rhythm & Blues, Jazz, and
Pop).

1945 - New York becomes the first state to prohibit discrimination by race
and creed in employment.

1955 - Charlie Parker joins the ancestors in New York City at the age of 34.

	He had been one of the founders of the modern jazz movement.

1962 - Darryl Strawberry is born in Los Angeles, California.  He will become
a professional baseball player and will play right field for the New 	York
Mets, the Los Angeles Dodgers, the San Francisco Giants and the 	New
York Yankees.  He will set the New York Mets all-time records for 	most
runs (662), most RBIs (733) and most home runs (252).  He will be 	a
member of the winning World Series championship teams in 1986 and
1996. 

1964 - Malcolm X resigns from the Nation of Islam. 

1982 - Charles Fuller wins the Pulitzer Prize for "A Soldier's Play."

2003 - Lynne Thigpen, actress, joins the ancestors at age 54 after
succumbing to complications from an enlarged heart. She played "the
chief" on "Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?"

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