*               Today in Black History - March 30               *

1869 - The 15th Amendment to the Constitution is ratified, which
        guarantees men, the right to vote regardless of "race, color
        or previous condition of servitude."  Despite ratification
        of the amendment, it will be almost 100 years before African
        Americans become universally enfranchised.

1923 - Zeta Phi Beta sorority is incorporated. It was founded on
        January 16, 1920 at Howard University in Washington, DC.

1941 - The National Urban League presents a one-hour program over a
        national radio network and urges equal participation for
        blacks in the national defense program.

1946 - "St. Louis Woman" opens on Broadway.  Based on a book by Arna
        Bontemps and Countee Cullen from Bontemps's novel "God Sends
        Sunday," the play brought wide attention to supporting actress
        Pearl Bailey, who stopped the show nightly with her renditions
        of "Legalize My Name" and "A Woman's Prerogative."

1948 - Naomi Sims is born in Oxford, Mississippi. She will become a
        trailblazing fashion model and founder of a beauty company
        that will bear her name.

1960 - Eighteen students are suspended by Southern University for
        participating in civil rights demonstrations.  Southern
        University students will rebel on March 31, boycotting classes
        and requesting withdrawal slips.  The rebellion will collapse
        after the death of a professor from a heart attack.

1963 - Air Force Capt. Edward J. Dwight, Jr. is named to the fourth
        class of aerospace research pilots at Edwards Air Force Base,
        becoming the first African American candidate for astronaut
        training.  He will be dropped from the program in 1965.

1963 - Stanley Kirk Burrell is born in Oakland, California.  He will
        become a rapper known as "M.C. Hammer" and will come out in
        1988 with the album, "Let's Get It Started. He will be best
        known for his hit, "U Can't Touch This."

1995 - Tens of thousands of Rwandan refugees, fleeing violence in
        Burundi, begin a two-day trek to sanctuary in Tanzania.

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