*               Today in Black History - April 16               *

1862 - Slavery is abolished in Washington, DC, and $993,407 in
	compensation is paid to slave owners for their lost "property."

1868 - Louisiana voters approve a new constitution and elect state
	officers, including the first African American lieutenant
	governor, Oscar J. Dunn, and the first African American state
	treasurer, Antoine Dubuclet.   Article Thirteen of the new
	constitution bans segregation in public accommodation: "All
	the persons shall enjoy equal rights and privileges upon any
	conveyances of a public character; and all places of business,
	or of public resort, or for which a license is required by
	either State, Parish or municipal authority, shall be deemed
	places of a public character and shall be opened to the
	accommodation and patronage of all persons, without
	distinction or discrimination on account of race or color."

1869 - Ebenezer Don Carlos Bassett is appointed Consul General to Haiti
	and the Dominican Republic, the first African American to serve
	in a diplomatic position for the United States.  Bassett will
	hold the post for 12 years.

1947 - Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor, Jr. is born in New York City.  He will 
	become one of the finest basketball players in history, first 
	with UCLA, then with the Milwaukee Bucks and, from 1975 to his 
	retirement in 1990, with the Los Angeles Lakers.  After  his 
	conversion to Islam in 1971, he will change his name to Kareem 
	Abdul-Jabbar early in his professional career. The all-time 
	leading scorer in the NBA, he will lead the Lakers to five NBA 
	championships, including back-to-back titles in 1987 and 1988.

1962 - Three Louisiana segregationists are excommunicated by Archbishop
	Joseph Rummel for continuing their opposition to his order for
	integration of New Orleans parochial schools.

1965 - Maj. General Benjamin O. Davis Jr., assistant deputy chief of
	staff of the U.S. Air Force, is named lieutenant general, the
	highest rank attained by an African American to date in the
	armed services.

1973 - Lelia Smith Foley becomes the first African American female to
	be elected mayor of a U.S. city when she takes office in the
	small town of Taft, Oklahoma. She will hold the position for 13
	years.

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