*  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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