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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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