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* 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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