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* Today in Black History - August 25 *
1862 - The Secretary of War authorizes General Rufus Saxton to
arm up to five thousand slaves.
1886 - Some six hundred delegates organize the American National
Baptist Convention at a St. Louis meeting. Rev. William
J. Simmons is elected president.
1886 - Kentucky State College (now University), chartered in May,
1886 as the State Normal School for Colored Persons and
only the second state-supported institution of higher
learning in Kentucky, is founded in Frankfort, Kentucky.
It will become a land grant college in 1890.
1925 - A. Phillip Randolph organizes the Sleeping Car Porters'
Union (Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters) at a mass
meeting in the Elks' Hall in Harlem. He is elected
president.
1927 - Althea Gibson is born in Silver, South Carolina. She will
grow up to be a pioneer in the field of tennis, becoming
the first African American to play tennis at the U.S.
Open in 1950 and at Wimbledon the following year. In
1957, she will win the singles and doubles titles at
Wimbledon, another first for an African American.
1950 - Sugar Ray Robinson knocks out Jose Basora to retain the
Pennsylvania Middleweight Title.
1964 - Blair Underwood is born. He will become an actor and will
star in "Downtown," and will be best known for his role
as "L.A. Law's" Jonathan Rollins.
1965 - James M. Nabrit Jr. is named ambassador and assigned to
the United Nations' delegation.
1991 - African Americans receive seven Emmy awards, a record
number up to that time.
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