*                   Today in Black History - July 28                   *

1802 - Alexandre Dumas is born in Villiers-Cotterets, France to a Haitian
        mulatto, Thomas Alexandre Dumas, and Marie Labouret Dumas, a French
        woman.  He will become an acclaimed author of the French classics
        "The Three Musketeers", "The Count of Monte Cristo", "The Man in
        the Iron Mask", and "The Corsican Brothers."

1866 - Congress passes a law that African American regiments should be part
        of the regular army, which results in the organization of the 9th
        and 10th Cavalry.

1868 - The Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, guaranteeing due
        process of law, is declared in effect. which grants citizenship for
        African Americans and provides for federal intervention when state
        governments are accused of violating an individual's constitutional
        rights.

1903 - Maggie Lena Walker founds and becomes the first president of the
        Saint Luke Penny Savings Bank in Richmond, Virginia.  She becomes
        the first woman bank president in the nation.

1914 - Woodrow Wilson Woolwine Strode is born in Los Angeles, California.
        An athlete turned actor, Strode will become a top-notch
        decathlete and a football star at UCLA, breaking the color barrier
        at the same time as Kenney Washington. He will meet his wife, an
        Hawaiian princess and stand-in for the swim sequences for Hedy
        Lamarr. Woody will play for the Cleveland Rams prior to their move
        to Los Angeles.  He will become part of Hollywood lore after
        meeting director John Ford and becoming a part of the Ford
        "family", appearing in almost a dozen Ford westerns. Strode will
        also play the powerful gladiator who does battle with Kirk Douglas
        in "Spartacus." He will also be a professional wrestler, wrestling
        the likes of Gorgeous George. Woody will live in a modest home
        overlooking Glendora and the San Gabriel Valley, east of Los
        Angeles about 25 miles. He will join the ancestors on December 31,
        1994.

1915 - United States forces invade Haiti and the country becomes a defacto
        protectorate.  U.S. troops will remain there until 1924.

1917 - Led by W.E.B. Dubois and James Weldon Johnson, over 10,000 African
        Americans march down Fifth Avenue in New York City to the sound of
        muffled drums in silent protest of lynchings and other racial
        indignities that are rampant in the United States.

1949 - Vida Blue, major-league pitcher (who will win the Cy Young award &
        American League MVP in 1971), is born.

1977 - Roy Wilkins turns over NAACP leadership to Benjamin L Hooks.

1985 - Lou Brock is inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame at Cooperstown,
        New York.

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