*               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 Black man 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 - Bob McAdoo, NBA forward/center (Buffalo Braves, Los Angeles
        Lakers) , is born.

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, (basketball: Chicago Bulls; member of the 1992
        Olympic Gold Medal-winning dream team), is born.

1968 - Will Smith, (actor: "Fresh Prince of Bel Air", "Six Degrees of
        Separation," "Made in America," "Independence Day," "Men In
        Black; singer: "Nightmare on My Street", "Parents Just Don't
        Understand"), is born.

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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