*		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. Editor's Note: 
	The entire African American population of Washington DC 
	(approximately 300,000+ of the 550,000+ people who live 
	there) is still constitutionally denied any voting rights or
	self-government in the United States. This is a gaping 
	exception to a so-called "universal" practice.

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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