1. Black Fact = (March 31)- 1878- Jack Johnson, boxing’s first black Heavyweight Champion, was born in Galveston, TX, on this date in 1878. In 1908 he became the first African American to win the world heavyweight crown when he knocked out the reigning champ, Tommy Burns. The fast-living Johnson held on to the title until 1915 and continued to box until he was 50. He died in an automobile accident in Raleigh, North Carolina, in 1946.
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2. Black Fact= (March 31)- 1980-Jesse Owens, winner of four Olympic Gold Medals in Berlin in 1936, died in Tucson, AZ, on this date in 1980.
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3. Black Fact= (March 31)- 1948- Asa Philip Randolph, on this date in 1948, told the Senate Armed Services Committee he would encourage young blacks to resist induction using civil disobedience if segregation and discrimination were not ended in draft programs.
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4.Black Fact= (March 31)- 1890- George “Little Chocolate” Dixon knocked out Cal McCarthy to become the first black man to hold an American title in any sport on this date in 1890. #theraydiotwins
