*                   Today in Black History - April 28                 *

1941 - In a famous Jim Crow railroad case brought by congressman Arthur
        W. Mitchell, the Supreme Court rules that separate facilities
        must be substantially equal.

1957 - W. Robert Ming, a Chicago lawyer, is elected chairman of the
        American Veterans Committee.  He is the first African American to
        head a major national veterans organization.

1967 - Muhammad Ali refuses induction into the U.S. Army and is stripped
        of his boxing titles by the World Boxing Association and the New
        York Athletic Association.

1983 - Two African American women, Alice Walker and Gloria Naylor, win
        prestigious American Book Awards for fiction.  Alice Walker's
        novel "The Color Purple" will be dramatized as a theatrical movie
        starring Whoopi Goldberg, Danny Glover, and Oprah Winfrey.
        Naylor's first novel, "The Women of Brewster Place," will be made
        into a made-for-television movie and series starring Oprah Winfrey,
        Jackee', and Paula Kelly.

1991 - Former CORE director and North Carolina judge Floyd Bixley McKissick
        dies in North Carolina at the age of 69.  He led CORE from 1963 to
        1966 during its transformation to a more militant civil rights
        organization.

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