*  Today in Black History - February 14  *

1760 - Richard Allen, is born into slavery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
        He will purchase his freedom in 1786 and will become a preacher
        the same year.  He will become the first African American ordained
        in the Methodist Episcopal Church (1799), and founder of the
        African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church in 1816, and first bishop
        of the AME Church.  He will join the ancestors on March 26, 1831.

1818 - The birth of Frederick Douglass in Tuckahoe (Talbot County),
        Maryland, is attributed to this date.  He will state, "I have no
        accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic
        record containing it... and it is the wish of most masters within
        my knowledge to keep their slaves thus ignorant." He will be a
        great African American leader and "one of the giants of
        nineteenth century America.  He was born Frederick Bailey and
        will change his name to Douglass after he escapes slavery in
        1838. He will join the ancestors on February 20, 1895 in
        Washington, DC.

1867 - Morehouse College is organized in Augusta, Georgia.  The school
        will be moved later to Atlanta.

1867 - New registration law in Tennessee abolishes racial distinctions
        in voting.

1936 - The National Negro Congress is organized at a Chicago meeting
        attended by eight hundred seventeen delegates representing more
        than five hundred organizations.  Asa Phillip Randolph of the
        Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters is elected president of the
        new organization.

1946 - Gregory Hines is born in New York City.  A child tap-dancing star
        in the group Hines, Hines, and Dad, Hines will lead a new
        generation of tap dancers that will benefit from the advice and
        teaching of such tap legends as Henry Le Tang,  "Honi" Coles,
        Sandman Sims, the Nicholas Brothers, and Sammy Davis, Jr.  Hines
        will also become a successful actor in movies including "White
        Knights," "Tap," and "A Rage in Harlem."

1951 - Sugar Ray Robinson defeats Jake LaMotta and wins the middleweight
        boxing title.

1957 - Lionel Hampton's only major musical work, "King David", makes its
        debut at New York's Town Hall.  The four-part symphony jazz
        suite was conducted by Dimitri Mitropoulos.

1966 - Wilt Chamberlain breaks the NBA career scoring record at 20,884
        points after only seven seasons as a pro basketball player.

1978 - Maxima Corporation, a computer systems and management company, is
        incorporated.  Headquartered in Lanham, Maryland, it will become
        one of the largest African American-owned companies and earn its
        founder, chairman and CEO, Joshua I. Smith,  chairmanship of the
        U.S. Commission on Minority Business Development.

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