* Today in Black History - March 21 * 1934 - Al Freeman, Jr. is born in San Antonio, 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." ______________________________________________________________ Munirah Chronicle is edited by Rene' A. Perry "The TRUTH shall make you free" E-mail: <[log in to unmask]> Archives: http://listserv.icors.org/archives/Munirah.html http://blackagenda.com/cybercolonies/index.htm _____________________________________________________________ To SUBSCRIBE send E-mail to: <[log in to unmask]> In the E-mail body place: Subscribe Munirah Your FULL Name ______________________________________________________________ Munirah(TM) is a trademark of Information Man. Copyright 1997 - 2007, All Rights Reserved by the Information Man in association with The Black Agenda.