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*               Today in Black History - April 3                *

1865 - The Fifth Massachusetts Colored Cavalry and units of the Twenty-
	fifth Corps are in the vanguard of Union troops entering Richmond. 
	The Second Division of the Twenty-Fifth Corps help to chase Robert 
	E. Lee's army from Petersburg to Appomattox Court House, April 3-10.
	The African American division and white Union soldiers are advancing
	on General Lee's trapped army with fixed bayonets when the 
	Confederate troops surrender.

1889 - The Savings Bank of the Order of True Reformers opens in
	Richmond, Virginia.

1934 - Richard Mayhew is born in Amityville, New York.  A student at
	the Art Students League, Brooklyn Museum Art School, and
	Columbia University, as well as the Academia in Florence,
	Italy, Mayhew will be one of the most respected and
	revolutionary landscape artists of the 20th century.  He will
	also form "Spiral," a forum for artistic innovation and
	exploration of African American artists' relationships to the
	civil rights movement, with fellow artists Romare Bearden,
	Charles Alston, Hale Woodruff, and others.

1936 - James Harrell McGriff is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  He
	will be surrounded by music as a child, with both parents playing
	piano and cousins Benny Golson and Harold Melvin, who were pursuing
	their own musical talents.  He will be influenced to play the organ
	by neighbor Richard "Groove" Holmes, with whom he will study 
	privately. He will also study organ at Philadelphia's Combe College 
	of Music and at Julliard. In addition, he will study with Milt 
	Buckner and with classical organist Sonny Gatewood.  His first hit
	will be with his arrangement of "I Got A Woman", on the Sue label, 
	which made it to the top five on both Billboard's Rhythm and Blues
	and Pop charts. There will be close to 100 albums with Jimmy 
	McGriff's name at the top as leader. He will record for Sue, Solid 
	State, United Artists, Blue Note, Groove Merchant, Milestone,
	Headfirst and Telarc. Over his prolific career, he will record with 
	George Benson, Kenny Burrell, Frank Foster, J.J. Johnson and a two-
	organ jam affair with the late "Groove" Holmes. 

1944 - The U.S. Supreme Court (Smith v. Allwright) said that "white
	primaries" that exclude African Americans are unconstitutional.

1950 - Carter G. Woodson, "the father of black history," joins the
	ancestors in Washington, DC at the age of 74.

1961 - Eddie Murphy is born in Brooklyn, New York.  A stand-up comedian 
	and star of "Saturday Night Live" before pursuing a movie career, 
	Murphy will become one of the largest African American box office 
	draws.  Among his most successful movies will be "48 Hours," 
	"Trading Places," "Beverly Hills Cop," "Coming to America," and 
	"Harlem Nights."

1963 - Led by Martin Luther King, Jr., the Birmingham anti-segregation 
	campaign begins.  Before it is over, more than 2,000 demonstrators,
	including King, will be arrested. The Birmingham Manifesto, issued 
	by Fred Shuttlesworth of the Alabama Christian Movement for Human 
	Rights the morning of the campaign, summarizes the frustration and
	hopes of the protesters: "The patience of an oppressed people 
	cannot endure forever.... This is Birmingham's moment of truth in
	which every citizen can play his part in her larger destiny."

1964 - Malcolm X speaks at a CORE-sponsored meeting on "The Negro
	Revolt - What Comes Next?"  In his speech "The Ballot or Bullet,"
	Malcolm warns of a growing black nationalism that will no longer
	tolerate patronizing white political action.

1968 - Less than 24 hours before he is assassinated in Memphis,
	Tennessee, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his
	Famous "mountaintop" speech to a rally of striking sanitation
	workers.

1990 - Jazz singer Sarah Vaughan joins the ancestors in suburban Los
	Angeles, California, at the age of 66. 

1996 - An Air Force jetliner carrying Commerce Secretary Ron Brown and 
	American business executives crashes in Croatia, killing all 35
	people aboard.

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