*                Today in Black History - October 14              *

1834 - Henry Blair of Glen Ross, Maryland, receives a patent for a corn
        planting machine and becomes the first African American to
        receive a U.S. patent .

1864 - The first African American daily newspaper, the New Orleans
        Tribune, is published in both French and English.

1916 - Sophomore tackle and guard Paul Robeson is excluded from the
        Rutgers football team when Washington and Lee University refuse
        to play against an African American. The exclusion will be
        temporary and the young Robeson will go on to be named a
        football All-American twice.

1947 - Charlie Joiner, NFL receiver (Houston, Cincinnati, San Diego),
        is born in Louisiana.

1958 - The District of Columbia Bar Association votes to accept African
        Americans as members.

1964 - Dr. Martin L. King, Jr. is announced as the recipient of the
        Nobel Peace Prize for his civil rights activities.  King is the
        second African American to win the Peace Prize.

1969 - A race riot occurs in Springfield, Massachusetts.

1971 - Two people are killed in a Memphis, Tennessee racial disturbance.

1980 - Bob Marley performs in his last concert before his untimely death
        from cancer.

1995 - Sports Illustrated places Eddie Robinson on the cover of its
        magazine.  He is the first and only coach of an historically
        Black university to appear on the cover of any major sports
        publication in the United States.

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