Audubon Ballroon (he/him)Growing list of those born or died on March 31 in any year
Members of the Congressional Black Caucus and other Democrats wore buttons with "1870" on them during the State of the Union address [in 2023] as a stand against [pig] brutality and a
call for meaningful reform.
The number refers to the year of the first known instance of [pig executing] a free, unarmed Black [Person] in the United States, when a Philadelphia [pig] chased and [executed] Henry Truman on March 31, 1870.
The [pig] who [executed] Truman chased him
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"into an alley and when Mr. Truman asked what he had done wrong, the [pig executed] him," Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman, who designed and distributed the pins, said.
James Cleveland "Jesse" Owens (September 12, 1913 – March 31, 1980) achieved international fame at the 1936 Summer
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Olympics in Berlin, Germany, by winning four gold medals: 100 meters, long jump, 200 meters, and 4 × 100-meter relay. He was the most successful athlete at the Games and, as a [Black] American man, was credited by ESPN with "single-handedly crushing Hitler's myth of Aryan
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supremacy".
A 32-year-old man named Phillip White died while in the custody of Vineland [pig] on March 31 [2015].
Richard Campbell died of de-hydration after being force fed large quantities of drugs in Ashford remand centre in 1980.
John Arthur Johnson (March 31, 1878 –
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June 10, 1946), nicknamed the "Galveston Giant", was an American boxer who, at the height of the Jim Crow era, became the first [Black] world heavyweight boxing champion (1908–1915). His 1910 fight against James J. Jeffries was dubbed the "fight of the century". Johnson
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defeated Jeffries, who was white, triggering dozens of race riots across the U.S.
Olaudah Equiano Listenⓘ (c. 1745 – 31 March 1797), known for most of his life as Gustavus Vassa, was a writer and abolitionist. According to his memoir, he was from the village of Essaka, presumed
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to be in present-day southern Nigeria. Enslaved as a child in West Africa, he was shipped to the Caribbean and sold to a Royal Navy [pig]. He was sold twice more before purchasing his freedom in 1766.
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