*               Today in Black History - March 19               *

1867 - Congressman Thaddeus Stevens calls up resolution providing for
        the enforcement of the Second Confiscation Act of July, 1962.
        The measure, which provides for the distribution of public and
        confiscated land to the freedmen, is defeated.

1872 - T.J. Boyd, inventor, awarded patent for apparatus for detaching
        horses from carriages.

1937 - The Count Basie Orchestra, with vocalists Billie Holiday and
        Jimmy Rushing, opens at the Apollo Theatre in Harlem.

1939 - The New Negro Theater is founded in Los Angeles, California, by
        Langston Hughes.  The company stages as its first performance
        Hughes's play, "Don't You Want to be Free?"

1952 - Sergeant Cornelius H. Charlton is posthumously awarded the
        Congressional Medal of Honor for bravery during the Korean War.
        He joined the ancestors after being killed in action on June 2,
        1951.

1967 - French Somaliland (Djibouti) votes to continue association with
        France.

1968 - Students take over the Administration Building at Howard
        University demanding resignation of university officials and a
        stronger orientation to black culture in the curriculum.  It
        is the first of many college protests over black studies
        programs on African American and white college campuses across
        the nation.

1995 - Twenty one months after retiring from basketball, Michael Jordan
        returns to professional basketball with his former team, the
        Chicago Bulls.

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