MONDAY, MARCH 25 TODAY INHISTORY

1931

In the so-called “Scottsboro Boys” case, nine young Black men were taken off a train in Alabama, accused of raping twowhite women; after years of convictions, death sentences and imprisonment, the nine were eventually vindicated.

On this date 1634

English colonists sent by Lord Baltimore arrived in present-day Maryland.

1894

Jacob S. Coxey began leading an “army” of unemployed from Massillon (Ma’-sihluhn), Ohio, towashington D.C., to demand help from the federal government.

1911

One hundred forty-six people, mostly young female immigrants, were killed when fire broke out at the Triangle Shirtwaist Co. in Newyork.

1915

The U.S. Navy lost its first commissioned submarine as the USS F-4sank off Hawaii, claiming the lives of all 21 crew members.

1947

A coal-dust explosion inside the Centralia Coal Co. Mine No. 5in Washington County, Illinois, claimed 111lives; 31 men survived.

1954

RCA announced it had begun producing color television sets at its plant in Bloomington, Indiana.

1960

Ray Charles recorded “Georgia on My Mind” as part of his “The Genius Hits the Road” album in New York.

1965

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led 25,000people to the Alabama state capitol in Montgomery after a five-day march from Selma to protest the denial of voting rights to Blacks. Later that day, civil rights activist Viola Liuzzo, a white Detroit homemaker, was shot and killed by Ku Klux Klansmen.

1987

The Supreme Court, in Johnson v. Transportation Agency, ruled 6-3that an employer could promote a woman over an arguably more-qualified man to help getwomen into higher-ranking jobs.