*		    Today in Black History - July 26	        *

1847 - Twenty-five years after the first free African Americans 
	arrive at the colony of Cape Mesurado, the commonwealth
	of Liberia declares itself an independent republic.  
	Joseph Jenkins Roberts, a Virginia native, becomes its 
	first president.

1865 - Catholic priest Patrick Francis Healy passes his final 
	Ph.D. examinations in philosophy at the University of 
	Louvrain in Belgium. He becomes the first African 
	American to earn a Ph.D.

1916 - Spottiswood W. Robinson is born in Richmond, Virginia.  
	He will pursue a distinguished career in law, in private
	practice, as a representative of the NAACP Legal Defense
	Fund, dean of the Howard University Law School, and as a
	member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.  In 1966,
	he will be named a U.S. Circuit Judge of the DC Circuit 
	by President Lyndon B. Johnson, marking the beginning of
	a successful judicial career.

1918 - Two days after she moves into a predominantly, though not
	exclusively, white Philadelphia neighborhood, an African
	American woman's house is stoned.  The incident will set
	off four days of riots in which one African American and
	three whites are killed.

1926 - The Spingarn Medal is awarded to Carter G. Woodson for 
	"ten years of devoted service in collecting and 
	publishing the records of the Negro in America."

1948 - President Harry S Truman issues Executive Order 9981, 
	directing "equality of treatment and opportunity for all 
	personnel without regard to race, color, religion or 
	national origin" in federal employment and the armed 
	forces.

1948 - Bob Howard becomes the first African American host of a 
	network show - CBS' "The Bob Howard Show."

1951 - The Army announces that it is disbanding the 24th Infantry
	Regiment, its last and oldest all African American 
	regiment, in order to integrate all White and African 
	American troops in the Korean War zone.

1998 - Larry Doby, the first African American in major league 
	baseball's American League, and Joe Rogan, a player in 
	the Negro Leagues, are inducted into Baseball's Hall of 
	Fame.

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