*               Today in Black History - April 10               *

1816 - Richard Allen is elected Bishop of the A.M.E. Church, one day
        after the church is organized at its first general convention.

1872 - The first National Black Convention meets in New Orleans,
        Louisiana.  Frederick Douglass will be elected president.

1877 - Federal troops withdraw from Columbia, South Carolina.  This
        action will allow the white South Carolina Democrats to take
        over the state government.

1926 - Johnnie Tillmon (later Blackston) is born in Scott, Arkansas. A
        welfare rights champion, Tillmon will become the founding
        chairperson and director of the National Welfare Rights
        Organization.

1932 - The James Weldon Johnson Literary Guild announces the winners of
        its first annual nationwide poetry contest for children. The
        judges - Jessie Fauset and Countee Cullen, among others - select
        in the teen category a 16-year-old Liberian youth and Margaret
        Walker of New Orleans, who receives an honorable mention for her
        poem "When Night Comes."

1938 - Nana Annor Adjaye, Pan-Africanist, dies in W. Nzima, Ghana.

1943 - Arthur Ashe is born in Richmond, Virginia.  One of the first
        African American male tennis stars, he will be the first African
        American to win a spot on the American Davis Cup tennis team,
        the first to win the U.S. Open and the men's singles title at
        Wimbledon, in 1975.

1958 - W.C. Handy, composer and musician, dies at the age of 84 in New
        York City.

1968 - U.S. Congress pass Civil Rights Bill banning racial
        discrimination in sale or rental of approximately 80 per cent of
        the nation's housing.  The bill also made it a crime to
        interfere with civil rights workers and to cross state lines to
        incite a riot.

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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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