*		Today in Black History - March 27		*

1867 - African American demonstrators in Charleston, South Carolina
	stage ride-ins on streetcars. On May 1, the Charleston City 
	Railway Company will adopt a resolution guaranteeing the right
	of all persons to ride in streetcars.

1872 - Cleveland Luca, a musician, member of the famous musical Luca 
	Family Quartet and composer of the Liberian National Anthem, 
	joins the ancestors in Liberia.

1924 - Sarah Lois Vaughan is born in Newark, New Jersey. On a dare, 
	she will enter a 1943 amateur contest at the Apollo Theatre 
	in Harlem and be hired by Earl "Fatha" Hines as a result of 
	her performance. She will begin recording in 1945, be 
	considered one of the finest jazz vocalists, and earn the 
	nickname "The Divine One." She will join the ancestors on 
	April 3, 1990.

1934 - Arthur Mitchell is born in New York City. The first male 
	recipient of the dance award from the New York High School of 
	Performing Arts in 1951, he will be the first African American 
	dancer to become a principal artist in the New York City 
	Ballet Company and will found the highly influential Dance 
	Theatre of Harlem in 1969. He will be recognized as a MacArthur 
	Fellow and inducted into the National Museum of Dance's Mr. & 
	Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney Hall of Fame. He will also
	receive the United States National Medal of Arts and a Fletcher 
	Foundation fellowship. The Arthur Mitchell Collection is held 
	at the Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University. 
	Arthur Mitchell: Harlem's Ballet Trailblazer, an exhibition 
	celebrating his life and career, opens at the Wallach Art 
	Gallery at Columbia on January 12, 2018. The exhibition Web 
	site contains numerous images and documents from the collection, 
	as well as a timeline of Mitchell's career, a repertory list for 
	the Dance Theatre of Harlem, and original essays. He will join 
	the ancestors on September 19, 2018.

1961 - Black demonstrators in Charleston, South Carolina stage ride-ins 
	on street cars.

1962 - Archbishop Joseph Francis Rummel ends racial segregation in New 
	Orleans, Louisiana Catholic schools. He will write that 
	segregation is "morally wrong and sinful because it is a denial 
	of the unity and solidarity of the human race as conceived by 
	God in the creation of man in Adam and Eve."

1969 - The Black Academy of Arts and Letters is founded at a meeting 
	in Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. C. Eric Lincoln, professor of 
	religion and sociology at Union Theological Seminary, is 
	elected president of the organization.

1972 - Fleeta Drumgo and John Cluchette are acquitted by an all-white 
	jury of the murder of a white guard at Soledad prison. George 
	Jackson, the third "Soledad Brother," is killed in the alleged 
	escape attempt.

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