*		Today in Black History - March 16		*

1827 - With the assistance of James Varick, Richard Allen, Alexander 
	Crummel, and others, Samuel E. Cornish and John B. Russwurm 
	publish "Freedom's Journal" in New York City.  Operating 
	from space in Varick's Zion Church, "Freedom's Journal" is 
	the first African American newspaper.  Russwurm says of the 
	establishment of the newspaper, "We wish to plead our own 
	cause. Too long have others spoken for us."

1870 - Senator Hiram R. Revels argues against Georgia's re-admission 
	to the Union without safeguards for African American citizens.
	It is the first official speech by an African American before 
	Congress.

1956 - Ozzie Newsome is born in Muscle Shoals, Alabama.  He will 
	become a stand-out football player for the University of 
	Alabama, and the first African American star athlete for a 
	major school in	the south.  Newsome will be drafted by the 
	Cleveland Browns and start 176 out of 182 games in 13 years.
	He will be the all-time leading receiver in Cleveland history
	and the all-time receiver among tight ends in the NFL. He
	will be fourth among receivers in NFL history with a record 
	of 662 catches.  He will earn three trips to the Pro Bowl and 
	will be named to the All-NFL Teams of the '80's.  Newsome 
	will remain with the Cleveland Browns in an administrative 
	position after his retirement.  In 1994 he will be inducted 
	into the College Football Hall of Fame and in 1999 to the Pro
	Football Hall of Fame.

1956 - Former heavyweight champion Joe Louis, makes his debut as a 
	pro wrestler. He knocks out 320-pound cowboy Rocky Lee. 
	Jersey Joe Walcott, the referee, is another former 
	heavyweight champ.

1960 - San Antonio, Texas becomes the first major southern city to 
	integrate lunch counters.

1966 - Rodney Peete is born in Mesa, Arizona.  He will become a NFL
	quarterback playing for the Detroit Lions and Philadelphia 
	Eagles and later, the Washington Redskins.

1970 - Tammi Terrell (Tammy Montgomery), best known for her duets 
	with Marvin Gaye, joins the ancestors at Graduate Hospital 
	in Philadelphia after undergoing six brain tumor operations 
	in 18 months.  Doctors first discovered Terrell's brain 
	tumor after she collapsed in Gaye's arms onstage in 1967. 

1975 - Aaron Thibeaux "T-Bone" Walker, jazz and blues singer, blues 
	guitarist, composer and pianist, joins the ancestors at the 
	age of 64. He was best known for his hits "Stormy Monday" 
	and "T-Bone Shuffle."

1988 - President Ronald Reagan vetoes a civil rights bill that would 
	restore protections invalidated by the U.S. Supreme Court's 
	1984 ruling in Grove City College v. Bell.  Reagan's veto 
	will be overridden by Congress less than a week later.

1989 - The U.S. Senate agrees to try U.S. District Court Judge Alcee 
	Hastings on fraud, corruption, and perjury charges stemming 
	from a 1981 bribery conspiracy case.  Hastings, appointed by 
	President Jimmy Carter as the first African American judge 
	to serve on the federal bench in Florida, will be convicted 
	of eight of the original articles and impeached in October.

1991 - Soon Ja Du, a Korean American grocery store owner, shoots to 
	death Latasha Harlins, a fifteen-year old African American 
	girl, after Ms. Du accused the girl of trying to steal a 
	$1.79 bottle of orange juice.  A security camera in the 
	store captures the shooting on videotape.  The shooting 
	exacerbates racial and ethnic tensions in Los Angeles in the 
	wake of the Rodney King beating. 

1995 - Mississippi ratifies the 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery, 
	some 130 years after the rest of the country got around to 
	it.

1996 - Mike Tyson regains a piece of the heavyweight championship by 
	defeating WBC champion Frank Bruno by TKO in the third round
	reclaim the heavyweight boxing title in Las Vegas.

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