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