*		Today in Black History - March 20		*

1852 - Uncle Tom's Cabin, by white abolitionist Harriet Beecher 
	Stowe, is published. The controversial novel will be 
	credited by many, including Abraham Lincoln, with sparking 
	the Civil War.  Mr. Lincoln will later tell Mrs. Stowe, 
	that she was "the little woman who wrote the book that 
	started this great war".

1852 - Martin R. Delany publishes "The Condition, Elevation, 
	Emigration and Destiny of the Colored People of the United 
	States," the first major statement of the African American 
	nationalist position. Delany says, "The claims of no people, 
	according to established policy and usage, are respected by 
	any nation, until they are presented in a national capacity."
	He adds: "We are a nation within a nation; as the Poles in 
	Russia, the Hungarians in Austria, the Welsh, Irish, and 
	Scotch in the British dominions."

1883 - Jan Matzeliger receives patent #274,207 for his shoe lasting 
	machine.  His invention will revolutionize the shoe industry, 
	allowing for the first mass production of shoes.

1890 - The Blair Bill, which provides federal support for education 
	and allocates funds to reduce illiteracy among the freedmen 
	is defeated in the U.S. Senate, 37-31.

1950 - Dr. Ralph Bunche receives the Nobel Peace Prize for his work 
	as a mediator in the Palestine crisis.  He is the first 
	African American to be so honored.

1957 - Shelton "Spike" Lee is born in Atlanta, Georgia.  He will 
	grow up	in the Fort Greene section of Brooklyn, New York, 
	the son of an accomplished jazz bassist and art teacher,
	Bill Lee.  He will become a motion picture director, 
	producing many of his own films.  His films, among them 
	"She's Gotta Have It," "Do the Right Thing" and "Jungle 
	Fever" explore the social, political, and interpersonal 
	relationships between African Americans and whites similar 
	to the early work of director Oscar Micheaux.

1970 - Students strike at the University of Michigan and demand 
	increased African American enrollment. The strike ends on 
	April 2, after the administration agrees to meet their 
	demands.

1973 - Roberto Clemente is elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame, 11 
	weeks after he joins the ancestors.  He becomes the first 
	person of African descent to be elected to the Hall of Fame 
	in a special election (before the five-year waiting period).
	He also is the first Hispanic to enter the Hall of Fame.

1987 - "Hollywood Shuffle" premieres.  The film is directed by, 
	produced by, and stars Robert Townsend. Townsend also used 
	his own money to bring his comedic vision to the screen.

2000 - Former Black Panther Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, once known as H. 
	Rap Brown, is captured in Alabama. He is wanted in the fatal 
	shooting of a sheriff's deputy in Atlanta, Georgia. Al-Amin 
	will maintain his innocence.

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