*               Today in Black History - April 21               *

1878 - The ship Azor leaves Charleston, South Carolina, on its first
        trip, carrying 209 African Americans bound for Liberia.

1892 - African American Longshoremen strike for higher wages in St.
        Louis, Missouri.

1938 - The Harlem Suitcase Theatre opens with Langston Hughes's play
        "Don't You Want to be Free?" The play's star is a young Robert
        Earl Jones, father of James Earl Jones.

1966 - Milton Olive, Jr. becomes the first African American to win the
        Congressional Medal of Honor for bravery during the Vietnam War.
        He will be honored for saving the lives of his fellow soldiers
        by falling on a live grenade while participating in a search-
        and-destroy mission near Phu Coung.

        His Imperial Majesty, Haile Selassie visits Kingston, Jamaica.

1974 - By winning the Monsanto Open in Pensacola, Florida, Lee Elder
        becomes the first African American professional golfer to
        qualify for the Masters Tournament. It will be one of four PGA
        tour victories for the Dallas, Texas, native, including the
        Houston Open in 1976 and the Greater Milwaukee Open and
        Westchester Classic in 1978. Elder's career earnings of $2
        million will place him among the top three African American
        golfers, along with Calvin Peete ($2.3 million and 12 PGA
        tournament victories) and Charlie Sifford ($1 million).

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        The source for these facts are "Encyclopedia Britannica,
        "InfoBeat," "I, Too, Sing America - The African American
        Book of Days," and independent research by the
        Information Man.
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