* 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 Williams, former prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago,
is born.
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. He will become a 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 from Central High School in Little
Rock, Arkansas, because of unruly white crowds, are escorted 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. 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 - Will Smith is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He will become a
rapper at the age of 12 and will be know 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 to become a major motion picture box office
attraction, starring in "Six Degrees of Separation," "Made in
America," "Independence Day," "Men In Black," and "Wild, Wild West."
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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