*                   Today in Black History - May 25                   *

1878 - Tapdancing legend Bill "Bojangles" (Luther) Robinson is born in 
        Richmond, Virginia.  He will star in vaudeville and in many movies 
        such as "The Littliest Rebel," "In Old Kentucky," "Rebecca of 
        Sunnybrook Farm," and "The Little Colonel".

1905 - Dorothy Burnett (later Wesley) is born in Warrenton, Virginia.  She 
        will become a member of Phi Beta Kappa, the first African American 
        woman to receive a Masters of Library Science degree from Columbia 
        University, and will author several African American historical 
        works. She will be a long-time librarian at the Howard University 
        Moorland-Spingarn Research Center and will be responsible for
        developing it into one of the world's largest collections of
material
        authored by and about people of African descent.

1919 - Millionaire Madame C.J. Walker joins the ancestors at the age of 52 
        at Irvington-on-the-Hudson, New York.  She was the founder of the 
        Madame C.J. Walker Manufacturing Company, the largest African
American 
        haircare company of its time.  After her death, a substantial
portion 
        of her business's proceeds will be donated to African American 
        organizations and scholarships. 

1932 - K.C. Jones is born in San Francisco, California. He will become a 
        member of the Olympic basketball team and help win the 1956 Olympic 
        Gold Medal.  He will then become a professional basketball player
with 
        the Boston Celtics, where he will help win eight NBA titles.  He
will 
        then win two championships as the coach of the Celtics. He will also

        be the head coach of the Washington Bullets and the Seattle 
        Supersonics. He will have 522 wins as a NBA coach and in 1997 will 
        become the coach of American Basketball League women's team, the New

        England Blizzard.  After the league disbands, he will join the 
        coaching staff of the women's basketball team at the University of 
        Rhode Island, at the age of 67.

1935 - This is "the greatest day in the history of track," according to "The

        New York Times."  Jesse Owens of Ohio State University breaks two 
        world sprint records, ties a third, and breaks a long jump world 
        record in a meet at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, all in 
        one hour.

1936 - David Levering Lewis is born in Little Rock, Arkansas.  He will 
        become a historian and biographer. Professor Lewis will receive his 
        Ph.D. in modern European history from the London School of Economics

        and Political Science in 1962.  His research and publications will 
        focus on African American history, conceptions of race and racism,
and 
        the dynamics of European colonialism, especially in Africa. He will 
        author a biography of Du Bois entitled "W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of
a 
        Race," which will win a Pulitzer prize in 1994. His other works 
        include "King: A Biography" (1970), "Prisoners of Honor: The Dreyfus

        Affair" (1975), "When Harlem Was in Vogue" (1982), "The Race to 
        Fashoda: European Colonialism and the African Resistance to the 
        Scramble for Africa" (1987), and "W.E.B. Du Bois: A Reader" (1995). 

1943 - Leslie Uggams is born in Washington Heights, New York.  She will make

        her acting debut on television's "Beulah" and be a regular on The 
        Mitch Miller Show before achieving acclaim in Broadway's "Hallelujah

        Baby" and TV's "Roots."

1943 - A riot, started by white workers, occurs in a Mobile, Alabama 
        shipyard over the job upgrading of twelve African American workers.

1959 - The U.S. Supreme Court declares a Louisiana law enforcing a ban on 
        bouts between African American and white boxers to be 
        unconstitutional.

1963 - The first observance of African Liberation Day occurs.  It begins at 
        the founding conference of the Organization of African Unity in
Addis 
        Ababa, Ethiopia.

1964 - The closing of schools to avoid desegregation is ruled 
        unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court.  Prince Edward County, 
        Virginia will have to reopen and desegregate its schools. 

1965 - A very short heavyweight title fight occurs in Lewiston, Maine. 
        Cassius Clay (later Muhammad Ali) knocks out challenger, Sonny
Liston, 
        in one minute and 56 seconds of the first round.  Liston never sees
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        the punch coming.  Neither did an unbelieving crowd at ringside, nor

        those in theatres all over the world watching the fight on closed-
        circuit TV. 

1971 - A young African American woman, Jo Etha Collier, joins the ancestors 
        after being killed in Drew, Mississippi by a bullet fired from a 
        passing car. Three whites are arrested on May 26 and charged with
the 
        unprovoked attack.

1994 - The United Nations Security Council lifts a 10-year-old ban on 
        weapons exports from South Africa, ending the last of its apartheid-
        era embargos.

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