*               Today in Black History - October 22              *

1854 - James Bland is born in Flushing, New York.  He will write over
        700 songs including "Oh, Dem Golden Slippers" and "Carry Me
        Back to Old Virginny." The latter song will be selected in
        1940 as the state song of Virginia, the state's legislators
        little knowing the identity and race of its composer.  Virginia
        will decide to change their state song in the late 1990s due to
        protest from civil rights activists who say that the song
        glorifies slavery and is inappropriate.

1906 - Three thousand African Americans demonstrated and rioted in
        Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to protest a theatrical presentation
        of Thomas Dixon's "The Clansman".

1936 - Bobby Seal is born in Dallas, Texas. He will become a Black
        political activist and co-founder, with Huey Newton, of the
        Black Panther Party.

1950 - Charles Cooper and Nat "Sweetwater" Clifton become two of the
        first three African Americans to play in an NBA game.  Cooper
        had been drafted by the Boston Celtics on April 25, 1950,
        becoming the first African American ever drafted by a NBA team.

1952 - Frank E. Peterson, Jr. is commissioned as the first African
        American marine aviation officer.

1955 - The first African American post office opens in Atlanta,
        Georgia.

1963 - 225,000 students boycott Chicago public schools in a Freedom
        Day protest against de facto segregation.

1986 - In an interview with the Washington Post, Spike Lee says,
        "Movies are the most powerful medium in the world and we just
        can't sit back and let other people define our existence,
        especially when they're putting lies out there on the screens."

1990 - President Bush vetos major civil rights legislation, arguing
        that the measure would force employers to adopt hiring quotas.
        The veto is later upheld.

1991 - Thirty African American delegates conclude a three-day visit to
        the Republic of South Africa at the invitation of the African
        National Congress.  While there, TransAfrica's Randall Robinson
        charges President Bush with failing to exert his influence to
        end Black township strife and Congresswoman Maxine Waters vows
        to press United States' cities and states to maintain sanctions
        against the republic.

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