*               Today in Black History - July 31                 *

1874 - Patrick Francis Healy, a Jesuit priest, is inaugurated as
        president of Georgetown University in Washington, DC.
        Healy is the first African American to head a predominantly
        white university and is credited with the modernization of
        the university's curriculum and the expansion of its campus.

1921 - Whitney Young, Jr. is born in Lincoln Ridge, Kentucky.  He will
        be dean of Atlanta University's School of Social Work before
        becoming executive director of the National Urban League.  A
        1969 recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Young
        will speak out against government and business' lack of
        commitment to African Americans.

1938 - New York Yankees suspend Jake Powell, after he says on Chicago
        radio that he would "hit every colored person in Chicago over
        the head with a club".

1960 - At a New York City meeting of the Nation of Islam, the Honorable
        Elijah Muhammad calls for the creation of a black state in
        America.

1962 - Wesley Snipes, actor ("Passenger 57," "Demolition Man,"  "Money
        Train", "Rising Sun", "Major League", "Sugar Hill",  "White Men
        Can't Jump"), is born.

1969 - Racial disturbances in Baton Rouge cause the governor of
        Louisiana to mobilize the National Guard.

1981 - Attorney Arnette R. Hubbard is installed as the first woman
        president of the National Bar Association, the largest national
        group of African American attorneys, legal scholars, and
        jurists.  Hubbard is a graduate of John Marshall Law School in
        Chicago and past president of the Cook County Bar Association.

1985 - Prince is big at the box-office with the autobiographical story
        of the Minneapolis rock star -- "Purple Rain".  The film
        grosses $7.7 million in its first three days of release on 917
        movie screens.  The album of the same name is, at the time, the
        top LP in the United States, as well.

1988 - Willie Stargell, formerly of the Pittsburgh Pirates, becomes the
        200th man inducted into Baseball's Hall of Fame at Cooperstown,
        New York.

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