*               Today in Black History - April 20               *

1853 - Harriet Tubman starts as a conductor on the Underground 
	Railroad.

1871 - Third Enforcement Act defines Klan conspiracy as a rebellion
	against the United States and empowers the president to 
	suspend the writ of habeas corpus and declare martial law 
	in rebellious areas.

1877 - Federal troops are withdrawn from public buildings in New
	Orleans, Louisiana.  Democrats then take over the state
	government.

1908 - Lionel Hampton is born in Louisville, Kentucky.  He will 
	become trained as a drummer and starts his musical career 
	on this instrument.  In 1930, while in a recording session 
	with Louis Armstrong, He will become fall in love with the 
	sound of a vibraphone that was used only to play the famous 
	NBC bing-bang-bong station identification.  This will lead 
	to Armstrong asking Hampton to add the instrument to the 
	score they were about to record.  "Memories of You", the 
	song premiering Hampton on the vibraphone, will become a 
	classic.  He will go on to become the best-known jazz 
	master of the vibraphone. He will join the ancestors on 
	August 31, 2002.

1920 - Mary J. Reynolds invents a hoisting/loading mechanism.

1926 - Harriet Elizabeth Byrd is born in Cheyenne, Wyoming.  She 
	will become a teacher and in 1981, the first African 
	American legislator in Wyoming's state history.

1951 - Luther Vandross is born in New York City.  An early backup 
	singer and commercial jingle writer, his big break as a 
	solo artist will come in 1981 when his album "Never Too 
	Much" will reveal his talents to both Rhythm & Blues and 
	pop audiences.  He will make a string of hit albums, 
	earning seven consecutive platinum and double-platinum 
	albums and achieve his greatest crossover success with the 
	albums "The Best of Luther Vandross" and "Power of Love," 
	which will earn him three Grammy awards. He will join the 
	ancestors from complications of diabetes and a stroke on 
	July 1, 2005.

1964 - Cleveland school officials report that 86 per cent of the 
	African American students in the school system 
	participated in one-day boycott.

1965 - President Lyndon Johnson awards the Medal of Freedom to 
	Leontyne Price, for "Her singing has brought light to her 
	land."

1969 - James Earl Jones wins a Tony for his portrayal of 
	controversial heavyweight champion Jack Johnson in "The 
	Great White Hope."

1971 - The U.S. Supreme Court rules unanimously that busing is a
	constitutionally acceptable method of integrating public
	schools.

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