* Today in Black History - March 21 *
1934 - Al Freeman, Jr. is born in Texas. He will become an actor and
will be known for his roles in "One Life to Live," "My Sweet
Charlie," "Once Upon A Time When We Were Colored," "The
Autobiography of Malcolm X," and "Down in the Delta."
1946 - The Los Angeles Rams sign Kenny Washington, the first African
American player to join a National Football League team since
1933.
1949 - The Rens, originally from New York, but now representing Dayton,
Ohio, play their last game against the Denver Nuggets. Their
lifetime record, amassed over 26 years, is 2,318 wins and 381
losses. Their opponents, the Nuggets, will become the first
NBA team to be owned by African Americans, when Bertram Lee and
Peter Bynoe lead a group of investors that buys the club in
1989.
1955 - NAACP chairman, author, and civil rights pioneer, Walter White
joins the ancestors in New York City.
1960 - Police in Sharpeville, near Johannesburg, fire on black South
Africans protesting racial pass laws. A protest strategy
devised by the Pan-African Congress to flood South African
jails with pass violators, the protesters will suffer 72 deaths
and over 200 injuries in the two days of violence that will
become known as the "Sharpeville Massacre." The ANC is outlawed.
1965 - Thousands of marchers complete the first leg of a five-day
freedom march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, dramatizing
the denial of voting rights for African Americans. Led by
Martin Luther King, Jr., thousands of marchers are protected
by U.S. Army troops and federalized Alabama National Guardsmen
because of violence encountered earlier, including the fatal
beating of a white minister, Reverend James J. Reeb.
1981 - Michael Donald, an African American teen-ager in Mobile, Alabama,
is abducted, tortured and killed in what prosecutors charge is a
Ku Klux Klan plot. A lawsuit brought by the Southern Poverty Law
Center on behalf of Donald's mother, Beulah Mae Donald, will
later result in a landmark $ 7 million judgment that bankrupts
The United Klans of America.
1990 - Namibia celebrates independence from South Africa.
1990 - United States Secretary of State James Baker meets black
nationalist leader Nelson Mandela, in Namibia, on the occasion
of Namibia's independence.
1991 - Test results released in Los Angeles show that Rodney King, the
motorist whose beating by police was videotaped by a bystander,
had marijuana and alcohol in his system following his arrest.
President Bush denounces King's beating as "sickening" and
"outrageous."
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