*               Today in Black History - February 25                *

1867 - Tennessee Gov. William Gannaway Brownlow issues a proclamation
        warning that the unlawful events of the Ku Klux Klan "must and
        SHALL cease" and that militia would be immediately organized
        against the organization.  This is in response to Ku Klux Klan
        activities in a nine county area.  The Klan s aim is to
        reverse the interlocking changes sweeping over the South
        during the Reconstruction: to destroy the Republican s party s
        infrastructure, undermine the Reconstruction state, reestablish
        control of the black labor force, and restore racial
        subordination in every aspect of Southern life. (Editor's Note:
        The KKK was founded in Pulaski, Tennessee on December 15, 1865)

1870 - Hiram Rhoades Revels of Mississippi becomes the first African
        American Senator.  He is elected by the Mississippi legislature
        to fill the Senate seat vacated by Jefferson Davis.  After the
        Senate term expires, he will become the first President of Alcorn
        A&M College, in Lorman, Mississippi (the first African American
        land-grant institution in the United States).

1948 - Martin Luther King, Jr. is ordained as a Baptist minister.  After
        graduating from Morehouse College in June, 1948, he will enter
        the Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania.

1964 - Muhammad Ali, considered by many the greatest heavyweight
        champion of all time, wins his first world heavyweight
        championship title by defeating Sonny Liston in Miami, Florida.

1978 - Daniel "Chappie" James, Jr. dies at 58 in Colorado Springs,
        Colorado.  James was an early graduate of the Tuskegee Institute
        Flying School and flew more than 100 missions during the Korean
        War.  He was the first African American to achieve the rank of
        four-star general.

1980 - Robert E. Hayden, African American poet and former poetry
        consultant to the Library of Congress, dies in Ann Arbor,
        Michigan.  Hayden's most notable works include "Words in
        Mourning Time and Angle of Ascent: New and Selected Poems."

1991 - Adrienne Mitchell becomes the first African American woman to
        die in combat in the Persian Gulf War when she is killed in her
        military barracks in Dharan, Saudi Arabia.

1992 - Natalie Cole, Patti LaBelle, Lisa Fischer, Luther Vandross, B.B.
        King, Boyz II Men, and James Brown, among others, win Grammy
        awards in ceremonies hosted by Whoopi Goldberg.

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