*		Today in Black History - March 27		*

1867 - African American demonstrators in Charleston, South Carolina
	stage ride-ins on streetcars.  On May 1, the Charleston City 
	Railway Company will adopt a resolution guaranteeing the 
             right of all persons to ride in streetcars.

1872 - Cleveland Luca, a musician, member of the famous musical Luca 
	Family Quartet and composer of the Liberian National Anthem, 
	joins the ancestors in Liberia.

1924 - Sarah Vaughan is born in Newark, New Jersey.  On a dare, she 
	will enter a 1943 amateur contest at the Apollo Theatre in 
	Harlem and be hired by Earl "Fatha" Hines as a result of her 
	performance.  She will begin recording in 1945, be considered 
	one of the finest jazz vocalists, and earn the nickname "The 
	Divine One." She will join the ancestors on April 3, 1990.

1934 - Arthur Mitchell is born in New York City.  The first male 
	recipient of the dance award from the High School of 
	Performing Arts in 1951, he will be the first African American 
	dancer to become a principal artist in the New York City 
	Ballet Company and will found the highly influential Dance 
	Theatre of Harlem in 1969.

1969 - The Black Academy of Arts and Letters is founded at a meeting 
	in Boston, Massachusetts.  Dr. C. Eric Lincoln, professor of 
	religion and sociology at Union Theological Seminary, is 
	elected president of the organization.

1972 - Fleeta Drumgo and John Cluchette are acquitted by an all-white 
	jury of the murder of a white guard at Soledad prison. George 
	Jackson, the third "Soledad Brother," is killed in the alleged 
	escape attempt.

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