*               Today in Black History - March 9                *

1841 - Joseph Cinque and the surviving African slaves who revolted on
        the ship Amistad are ordered freed by the United States Supreme
        Court and returned to Africa after successfully appealing their
        mutiny conviction on grounds that they were kidnapped by outlawed
        slave traders.  Their defense attorney is John Quincy Adams,
        former President of the United States and a Massachusetts senator.

1871 - Oscar De Priest is born in Florence, Alabama.  He will be the
        first congressman elected from a northern state.  He will
        represent Illinois and be an active advocate for pensions for
        African American ex-slaves, lynching prevention, and civil rights
        improvements.

1891 - The North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University is
        founded in Greensboro.

1892 - Three friends of Ida B. Wells-Barnett, prominent African American
        businessmen, are lynched in Memphis, Tennessee after an incident
        that stemmed from their opening a grocery store across the street
        from a white-owned grocery store.

1911 - White firemen of the Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific
        Railroad struck to protest the hiring of Black firemen.  (For
        those who don't remember steam engines, firemen worked in the
        engine stoking the fire, which kept the steam generator going)

1914 - The "New" Southern University campus opens in Scotlandville,
        Louisiana near Baton Rouge with nine teachers and 47 students.

1931 - Walter F. White is named NAACP executive secretary.

1933 - Lloyd Price is born.  He will become a successful Rhythm & Blues
        artist and will record "Lawdy Miss Clawdy" ('52 #1 R&B), "Oooh,
        Oooh, Oooh" ('52 #4 R&B), "Ain't It A Shame" ('53 #4 R&B), "Just
        Because" ('57 #3 R&B, #29 Pop), "Stagger Lee" ('58 #1 R&B, #1
        Pop), "Where Were You (On Our Wedding Day)" ('59 #4 R&B, #23
        Pop), Personality" ('59 #1 R&B, #2 Pop), and fifteen other hits.

1948 - Jeffrey Osborne is born.  He will become an accomplished rhythm
        and blues singer performing as lead singer for the group LTD.
        He will later become a successful solo artist.

1964 - Miriam Zenzi Makeba speaks before the United Nations about the
        apartheid system in South Africa.

1965 - Three white Unitarian ministers, including the Rev. James J. Reeb,
        are attacked with clubs on the streets of Selma, Alabama, while
        participating in a civil rights demonstration.  Reeb will later
        die in a Birmingham, Alabama hospital.

1966 - Andrew F. Brimmer becomes the first African American governor on
        the Federal Reserve Board.

1971 - Emmanuel Lewis is born in Brooklyn, New York.  He will become a
        child actor and will be best known for his television role as
        "Webster."

1997 - The popular "gangsta rapper" Notorious B.I.G., whose real name is
        Christopher Wallace, joins the ancestors after being killed in a
        drive-by shooting in Los Angeles, California at the age of 24.

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