*            Today in Black History - October 22           *

1854 - James Bland is born in Flushing, New York.  He will 
	write over 700 songs including "Oh, Dem Golden 
	Slippers" and "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny." The 
	latter song will be selected in 1940 as the state 
	song of Virginia, the state's legislators little 
	knowing the identity and race of its composer.  
	Virginia will decide to change their state song in 
	the late 1990s due to protest from civil rights 
	activists who say that the song glorifies slavery and
	is inappropriate. He will join the ancestors on May
	5, 1911 after succumbing to tuberculosis. 

1906 - Three thousand African Americans demonstrated and 
	rioted in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to protest a 
	theatrical presentation of Thomas Dixon's "The 
	Clansman".

1936 - Robert George "Bobby" Seale is born in Dallas, Texas. 
	He will become a Black political activist and co-founder, 
	with Huey Newton, of the Black Panther Party. 

1950 - Charles Cooper and Nat "Sweetwater" Clifton become two
	of the first three African Americans to play in an 
	NBA game.  Cooper had been drafted by the Boston 
	Celtics on April 25, 1950, becoming the first African
	American ever drafted by a NBA team.

1952 - Frank E. Peterson, Jr. is commissioned as the first 
	African American marine aviation officer. 

1963 - 225,000 students boycott Chicago public schools in a 
	Freedom Day protest against de facto segregation.

1986 - In an interview with the Washington Post, Spike Lee 
	says, "Movies are the most powerful medium in the world
	and we just can't sit back and let other people define
	our existence, especially when they're putting lies out
	there on the screens." 

1990 - President Bush vetos major civil rights legislation, 
	arguing	that the measure would force employers to adopt
	hiring quotas. The veto is later upheld. 

1991 - Thirty African American delegates conclude a three-day 
	visit to the Republic of South Africa at the invitation
	of the African National Congress.  While there, 
	TransAfrica's Randall Robinson charges President Bush 
	with failing to exert his influence to end Black 
	township strife and Congresswoman Maxine Waters vows
	to press United States' cities and states to maintain 
	sanctions against the republic.

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