Today in Black History 03/26/2010

*        Today in Black History - March 26        *

1831 - Richard Allen joins the ancestors at the age of 71.  He had been
    nominated by author Vernon Loggins for the title, "Father of
    the Negro."

1872 - Thomas J. Martin is awarded a patent for the fire extinguisher.

1910 - William H. Lewis is appointed assistant attorney general of the
    United States.

1937 - William Hastie is appointed to a federal judgeship in the Virgin
    Islands. With the appointment, Hastie becomes the first African
    American to serve on the federal bench in the U.S. or its
    territories. Judge Hastie will serve on the bench for two years
    then become dean and professor of law at Howard University in
    Washington DC.

1944 - Diana Ross is born in Detroit, Michigan.  Ross, with Mary Wilson
    and Florence Ballard, will form the Supremes in 1961 and have
    15 consecutive smash-hit singles with the group.  Ross will
    also pursue an acting career in such movies as "Lady Sings the
    Blues" and receive a Tony Award for her Broadway show, "An
    Evening with Diana Ross."  Both with the Supremes and as a solo
    artist, she will have more number-one records than any other
    artist in the history of the charts.

1950 - Theodore Pendergrass is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He
    will become a lead singer for Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes
    in 1970 and will pursue an active solo career in 1976. His solo
    career will later be temporarily interrupted by an auto
    accident that will leave him paralyzed from the chest down. His
    debut album, "Teddy Pendergrass (1977)," struck Platinum, as
    did the next four albums - "Life Is A Song Worth Singing,"
    "Teddy," "Teddy Live" and "T.P." Other releases include "Love
    Language," "Working It Back" and "Joy." He will be nominated
    for a Grammy more than three times and be the holder of a 1980
    "Best Rhythm & Blues Artist" award from Billboard Magazine. The
    Philadelphia Music Foundation will honor him with a
    Philadelphia Music Award for "Best Urban Album" in 1989.

1984 - Ahmed Sekou Toure' joins the ancestors in a hospital in
    Cleveland, Ohio.  He was the country of Guinea's first
    president and a well-known political figure throughout Africa.

1991 - The Reverend Emanuel Cleaver becomes the first African American
    mayor of Kansas City, Missouri.  At this time, Kansas City is
    seventy percent white, but he will win the election with 53
    percent of the vote, while his opponent receives forty-seven
    percent.

1992 - A judge in Indianapolis sentences former heavyweight boxing
    champion Mike Tyson to six years in prison for raping a Miss
    Black America contestant.

1995 - Former diplomat-turned-radio talk show host Alan Keyes enters the
    race for the Republican presidential nomination.

1998 - President Clinton stands with President Nelson Mandela in a
    racially integrated South African parliament to salute a country
    that was "truly free and democratic at last."

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