*		 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. In 1964, 
	she will become the first African American woman to play 
	in the Ladies Professional Golf Association. However, she
	will be too old to be successful and only play for a few 
	years. In 1971, she will be inducted into the International 
	Tennis Hall of Fame, and in 1975, she will be appointed the 
	New Jersey state commissioner of athletics. After 10 years 
	on the job, she will go on to work in other public service 
	positions, including serving on the governor's council on 
	physical fitness. She will join the ancestors on September 
	28, 2003.

1950 - Sugar Ray Robinson knocks out Jose Basora to retain the 
	Pennsylvania Middleweight Title.

1964 - Blair Underwood is born in Tacoma, Washington. 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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