*                       Today in Black History - September 25            *

 

1861 - The Secretary of the Navy authorizes the enlistment of African

            Americans in the Union Navy. The enlistees could achieve no 

            rank higher than "boys" and receive pay of one ration per day

            and $10 per month.

 

1886 - Peter "The Black Prince" Jackson wins the Australian heavyweight

            title, becoming the very first man of African descent to win a 

            national boxing crown. 

 

1911 - Dr. Eric Williams, former prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago,

            is born.

 

1924 - In a letter to his friend Alain Locke, Langston Hughes writes 

            "I've done a couple of new poems.  I have no more paper, so 

            I'm sending you one on the back of this letter."  The poem, 

            "I, Too", will be published two years later and be among his

            most famous.

 

1951 - Robert Allen "Bob" McAdoo, Jr. is born.  He will become a one of

            the best-shooting big men of all time in professional
basketball.

            He will win Rookie of the Year, a Most Valuable Player Award and

            three consecutive scoring championships, all in his first four 

            years in the NBA.  Over fourteen seasons, McAdoo will score 

            18,787 points and average 22.1 point per game. A five-time NBA 

            All Star, he will shoot .503 from the field and .754 from the 

            line, scoring in double figures in all but one season.

 

1957 - With 300 U.S. Army troops standing guard, nine African American

            children forced to withdraw the previous day from Central High 

            School in Little Rock, Arkansas, because of unruly white crowds,


            are escorted to back to class. 

 

1962 - Sonny Liston knocks out Floyd Patterson in the first round to

            become the world heavyweight boxing champion.

 

1962 - An African American church is destroyed by fire in Macon, Georgia.

            This is the eighth African American church burned in Georgia in 

            one month.

 

1962 - Governor Ross Barnett again defies court orders and personally

            denies James Meredith admission to the University of
Mississippi.

 

1965 - Willie Mays hits his fiftieth home run of the baseball season,

            making him the oldest player to accomplish this.  He was 34 

            years old.  Ten years before this, at the age of 24, he was 

            the youngest man to accomplish the same feat. 

 

1965 - Scotty Pippen is born. He will become a professional basketball

            player and will be traded to the Houston Rockets in 1998 after
11 

            distinguished seasons with the Chicago Bulls, for whom he 

            averaged 18.0 points, 6.8 rebounds and 5.3 assists in 833 NBA 

            games. He will earn All-NBA First Team honors three times in his

            career and All-Defensive First Team honors in each of seven 

            seasons (1992-1999. In addition, Pippen will earn NBA World 

            Championships in six of the eight years and Olympic gold medals 

            in 1992 and 1996.  He will be selected as one of the 50 Greatest


            Players in NBA History in 1996.

 

1968 - Will Smith is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  He will become 

            a rapper at the age of 12 and will be know for his hits 

            "Nightmare on My Street" and "Parents Just Don't Understand." In

            1990 he will start his acting career with a six-year run as the 

            "Fresh Prince of Bel Air."  He will go to become a major motion 

            picture box office attraction, starring in "Six Degrees of 

            Separation," "Made in America," "Independence Day," "Men In 

            Black," and "Wild, Wild West."

 

1974 - Barbara W. Hancock is the first African American woman to be named

            a White House Fellow.

 

1988 - Florence Griffith Joyner runs 100 meters in record Olympic time

            of 10.54 seconds. 

 

1991 - Pioneer filmmaker Spencer Williams's 1942 movie "Blood of Jesus",

            a story of the African American religious experience, is among

            the third group of twenty-five films added to the Library of

            Congress's National Film Registry.  Williams, best known for

            his role of Andy in the television series "Amos 'n' Andy", was

            more importantly, an innovative film director and a contemporary

            of Oscar Micheaux.   Williams's film joins other classics like 

            "Lawrence of Arabia" and "2001: A Space Odyssey".


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