*		Today in Black History - March 21		*

1934 - Al Freeman, Jr. is born in San Antonio, Texas.  He will become 
	an actor and will be known for his roles in "One Life to 
	Live," "My Sweet Charlie," "Once Upon A Time When We Were 
	Colored," "The Autobiography of Malcolm X," and "Down in The 
	Delta."

1946 - The Los Angeles Rams sign Kenny Washington, the first African
	American player to join a National Football League team since
	1933.

1949 - The Rens, originally from New York, but now representing 
	Dayton, Ohio, play their last game against the Denver 
             Nuggets. Their lifetime record, amassed over 26 years, is 
             2,318 wins and 381 losses.  Their opponents, the Nuggets, 
             will become the first NBA team to be owned by African 
             Americans, when Bertram Lee and Peter Bynoe lead a group of 
             investors that buys the club in 1989.

1955 - NAACP chairman, author, and civil rights pioneer, Walter White 
	joins the ancestors in New York City.

1960 - Police in Sharpeville, near Johannesburg, fire on Black South 
	Africans protesting racial pass laws.  A protest strategy 
	devised by the Pan-African Congress to flood South African 
	jails with pass violators, the protesters will suffer 72 
	deaths and over 200 injuries in the two days of violence that 
	will become known as the "Sharpeville Massacre."  The ANC is 
	outlawed.

1965 - Thousands of marchers complete the first leg of a five-day
	freedom march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, 
             dramatizing the denial of voting rights for African Americans.  
             Led by Martin Luther King, Jr., thousands of marchers are 
             protected by U.S. Army troops and federalized Alabama 
             National Guardsmen because of violence encountered earlier, 
             including the fatal beating of a white minister, Reverend 
             James J. Reeb. 
	
1981 - Michael Donald, an African American teen-ager in Mobile, 
	Alabama, is abducted, tortured and killed in what prosecutors 
	charge is a Ku Klux Klan plot. A lawsuit brought by the 
	Southern Poverty Law Center on behalf of Donald's mother, 
	Beulah Mae Donald, will later result in a landmark $ 7 
	million judgment that bankrupts The United Klans of America. 

1990 - Namibia celebrates independence from South Africa.  

1990 - United States Secretary of State James Baker meets Black 
	nationalist leader Nelson Mandela, in Namibia, on the 
	occasion of Namibia's independence.

1991 - Test results released in Los Angeles show that Rodney King, 
	the motorist whose beating by police was videotaped by a 
	bystander, had marijuana and alcohol in his system following 
	his arrest. President Bush denounces King's beating as 
	"sickening" and "outrageous."

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