*               Today in Black History - March 30               *

1869 - The 15th Amendment to the Constitution is ratified, which
        guarantees the right to vote regardless of "race, color or
        previous condition of servitude."  Despite ratification of the
        amendment, it will be almost 100 years before African Americans
        become universally enfranchised.

1923 - Zeta Phi Beta sorority is incorporated. It was founded on January
        16, 1920 at Howard University in Washington, DC.

1941 - The National Urban League presents a one-hour program over a
        national radio network and urges equal participation for blacks
        in the national defense program.

1946 - "St. Louis Woman" opens on Broadway.  Based on a book by Arna
        Bontemps and Countee Cullen from Bontemps's novel "God Sends
        Sunday," the play brought wide attention to supporting actress
        Pearl Bailey, who stopped the show nightly with her renditions
        of "Legalize My Name" and "A Woman's Prerogative."

1948 - Naomi Sims is born in Oxford, Mississippi. She will become a
        trailblazing fashion model and founder of a beauty company that
        will bear her name.

1960 - Eighteen students are suspended by Southern University.  Southern
        University students will rebel on March 31, boycotting classes
        and requesting withdrawal slips.  Rebellion will collapse after
        the death of a professor from a heart attack.

1963 - Air Force Capt. Edward J. Dwight, Jr. is named to the fourth
        class of aerospace research pilots at Edwards Air Force Base,
        becoming the first black candidate for astronaut training.  He
        will be dropped from the program in 1965.

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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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