*            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. He will join the ancestors on May

            5, 1911 after succumbing to tuberculosis. 

 

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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