* Today in Black History - September 25 *
1861 - The Secretary of the Navy authorizes the enlistment of
African Americans in the Union Navy. The enlistees could
achieve no rank higher than "boys" and receive pay of
one ration per day and $10 per month.
1886 - Peter "The Black Prince" Jackson wins the Australian
heavyweight title, becoming the very first man of
African descent to win a national boxing crown.
1911 - Dr. Eric Eustace Williams, the first Prime Minister of
Trinidad and Tobago, is born in Port of Spain, Trindad
and Tobago. He will make a shift from American academia
to the public arena in 1944. In 1948, he will decide to
return to his native country and become involved in
politics. On January 15, 1956 he will inaugurate his
own political party, the People's National Movement,
which will take Trinidad and Tobago into independence
in 1962, and dominate its postcolonial politics. Until
this time his lectures will be carried out under the
auspices of the Political Education Movement (PEM), a
branch of the Teachers Education and Cultural
Association, a group which had been founded in the
1940s as an alternative to the official teachers’
union. The PNM’s first document will be its
constitution. Unlike the other political parties of
the time, the PNM will be a highly organized,
hierarchical body. Its second document was The People’s
Charter, in which the party will strive to separate
itself from the transitory political assemblages which
had beeb the norm in Trinidadian politics. He will lead
the newly independent country in 1962 until he joins
the ancestors on March 29, 1981.
1924 - In a letter to his friend Alain Locke, Langston Hughes
writes "I've done a couple of new poems. I have no more
paper, so I'm sending you one on the back of this
letter." The poem, "I, Too", will be published two years
later and be among his most famous.
1951 - Robert Allen "Bob" McAdoo, Jr. is born in Greensboro, North
Carolina. He will become one of the best-shooting big men
of all time in professional basketball. He will win Rookie
of the Year, a Most Valuable Player Award and three
consecutive scoring championships, all in his first four
years in the NBA. Over fourteen seasons, McAdoo will score
18,787 points and average 22.1 point per game. A five-time
NBA All Star, he will shoot .503 from the field and .754
from the line, scoring in double figures in all but one
season.
1957 - With 300 U.S. Army troops standing guard, nine African
American children forced to withdraw the previous day
from Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas,
because of unruly white crowds, are escorted to back to
class.
1962 - Sonny Liston knocks out Floyd Patterson in the first round
to become the world heavyweight boxing champion.
1962 - An African American church is destroyed by fire in Macon,
Georgia. This is the eighth African American church
burned in Georgia in one month.
1962 - Governor Ross Barnett again defies court orders and
personally denies James Meredith admission to the
University of Mississippi.
1965 - Willie Mays hits his fiftieth home run of the baseball
season, making him the oldest player to accomplish this.
He was 34 years old. Ten years before this, at the age
of 24, he was the youngest man to accomplish the same
feat.
1965 - Scotty Pippen is born in Hamburg, Arkansas. He will become
a professional basketball player and will be traded to the
Houston Rockets in 1998 after 11 distinguished seasons
with the Chicago Bulls, for whom he averaged 18.0 points,
6.8 rebounds and 5.3 assists in 833 NBA games. He will
earn All-NBA First Team honors three times in his career
and All-Defensive First Team honors in each of seven
seasons (1992-1999. In addition, Pippen will earn NBA
World Championships in six of the eight years and Olympic
gold medals in 1992 and 1996. He will be selected as one
of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History in 1996.
1968 - Willard Christopher "Will" Smith is born in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania. He will become a rapper at the age of 12
and will be known for his hits "Nightmare on My Street"
and "Parents Just Don't Understand." In 1990 he will
start his acting career with a six-year run as the
"Fresh Prince of Bel Air." He will go on to become a
major motion picture box office attraction, starring in
"Six Degrees of Separation," "Made in America,"
"Independence Day," "Men In Black I & II," "Wild, Wild
West," "Bad Boys I & II, "The Pursuit of happiness,"
(Oscar Nomination) and "Ali" (Oscar Nomination).
1974 - Barbara W. Hancock is the first African American woman
to be named a White House Fellow.
1988 - Florence Griffith Joyner runs 100 meters in record
Olympic time of 10.54 seconds.
1991 - Pioneer filmmaker Spencer Williams's 1942 movie "Blood
of Jesus", a story of the African American religious
experience, is among the third group of twenty-five
films added to the Library of Congress's National Film
Registry. Williams, best known for his role of Andy in
the television series "Amos 'n' Andy", was more
importantly, an innovative film director and a
contemporary of Oscar Micheaux. Williams's film joins
other classics like "Lawrence of Arabia" and "2001: A
Space Odyssey".
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