*               Today in Black History - March 28               *

1870 - Jonathan S. Wright becomes the first African American State
        Supreme Court Justice in South Carolina.

1925 - Sculptor Ed Wilson is born in Baltimore, Maryland.  He will
        study at the University of Iowa, receive sculpture awards
        from the Carnegie Foundation, Howard University and the State
        University of New York, and have his work shown at Two
        Centuries of Black American Art, and other exhibitions. Among
        his major works will be "Cybele."

1939 - The Renaissance (Big 5) becomes the first African American team
        on record to win a professional world championship (basketball).

1958 - William Christopher (W.C.) Handy joins the ancestors in New York
        City at the age of 85.  In the same year, the movie of his life,
        "St. Louis Blues" is released, starring Nat King Cole as Handy.

1966 - Bill Russell is named head coach of the Boston Celtics and becomes
        the first African American to coach an NBA team.

1984 - Educator and civil rights activist Benjamin Mays dies in Atlanta,
        Georgia.  Mays had served as dean of the School of Religion at
        Howard University and president of Morehouse College, where he
        served as the mentor to the young Martin Luther King, Jr.

1990 - Michael Jordan scores 69 points in a NBA game.  This the 4th time
        he scores 60 points or more in a game.

1990 - President Bush posthumously awards the Congressional Gold Medal to
        Jesse Owens and presents it to his widow.

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