*               Today in Black History - March 27               *

1867 - African American demonstrators in Charleston, South Carolina
        stage ride-ins on streetcars.  On May 1, the Charleston City
        Railway Company will adopt a resolution guaranteeing the right
        of all persons to ride in streetcars.

1872 - Cleveland Luca, a musician, member of the famous musical Luca
        Family Quartet and composer of the Liberian National Anthem,
        dies in Liberia.

1924 - Sarah Vaughan is born in Newark, New Jersey.  On a dare, she
        will enter a 1943 amateur contest at the Apollo Theatre in
        Harlem and be hired by Earl "Fatha" Hines as a result of her
        performance.  She will begin recording in 1945, be considered
        one of the finest jazz vocalists, and earn the nickname "The
        Divine One."

1934 - Arthur Mitchell is born in New York City.  The first male
        recipient of the dance award from the High School of
        Performing Arts in 1951, he will be the first African American
        dancer to become a principal artist in the New York City
        Ballet Company and will found the highly influential Dance
        Theatre of Harlem.

1969 - The Black Academy of Arts and Letters is founded at a meeting in
        Boston, Massachusetts.  Dr. C. Eric Lincoln, professor of
        religion and sociology at Union Theological Seminary, is elected
        president of the organization.

1972 - Fleeta Drumgo and John Cluchette are acquitted by an all-white
        jury of the murder of a white guard at Soledad prison. George
        Jackson, the third "Soledad Brother," was killed in the
        alleged escape attempt.

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        The source for these facts are "Encyclopedia Britannica,
        "InfoBeat," "I, Too, Sing America - The African American
        Book of Days," and independent research by the
        Information Man.
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