*		Today in Black History - March 20		*

1852 - Uncle Tom's Cabin, by white abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe, 
	is published. The controversial novel will be credited by many, 
	including Abraham Lincoln, with sparking the Civil War.  Mr.
	Lincoln will later tell Mrs. Stowe, that she was "the little 
	woman who wrote the book that started this great war".

1852 - Martin R. Delany publishes "The Condition, Elevation, Emigration 
	and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States," the 
	first major statement of the African American nationalist 
	position. Delany says, "The claims of no people, according to 
	established policy and usage, are respected by any nation, until 
	they are presented in a national capacity."  He adds: "We are a 
	nation within a nation; as the Poles in Russia, the Hungarians 
	in Austria, the Welsh, Irish, and Scotch in the British 
	dominions."

1883 - Jan Matzeliger receives patent #274,207 for his shoe lasting 
	machine.  His invention will revolutionize the shoe industry, 
	allowing for the first mass production of shoes.

1890 - The Blair Bill, which provides federal support for education and 
	allocates funds to reduce illiteracy among the freedmen is 
	defeated in the U.S. Senate, 37-31.

1950 - Dr. Ralph Bunche receives the Nobel Peace Prize for his work as 
	a mediator in the Palestine crisis.  He is the first African 
	American to be so honored.

1957 - Shelton "Spike" Lee is born in Atlanta, Georgia.  He will grow up
	in the Fort Greene section of Brooklyn, New York, the son of an
	accomplished jazz bassist and art teacher, Bill Lee.  He will 
	become a motion picture director, producing many of his own 
	films.  His films, among them "She's Gotta Have It," "Do the 
	Right Thing" and "Jungle Fever" explore the social, political, 
	and interpersonal relationships between African Americans and 
	whites similar to the early work of director Oscar Micheaux.

1970 - Students strike at the University of Michigan and demand 
	increased African American enrollment. The strike ends on April 
	2, after the administration agrees to meet their demands.

1973 - Roberto Clemente is elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame, 11 weeks 
	after he joins the ancestors.  He becomes the first person of 
	African descent	to be elected to the Hall of Fame in a special 
	election (before the five-year waiting period).  He also is the 
	first Hispanic to enter the Hall of Fame.

1987 - "Hollywood Shuffle" premieres.  The film is directed by, produced
	by, and stars Robert Townsend.  Townsend also used his own money 
	to bring his comedic vision to the screen.

2000 - Former Black Panther Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, once known as H. Rap
	Brown, is captured in Alabama. He is wanted in the fatal shooting 
	of a sheriff's deputy in Atlanta, Georgia. Al-Amin will maintain 
	his innocence.

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