*  Today in Black History - February 24     *

1811 - The first African American to become a college president (Wilberforce
        University in Ohio - 1863), Daniel A. Payne, is born in Charleston,
        South Carolina.  He will become an educator, clergyman, bishop, and
        historian of the AME Church.

1842 - James Forten, Sr. joins the ancestors in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
        A businessman who amassed a fortune as a sail maker,  Forten was
        one of the most influential abolitionists of the first half of
        the 19th century.  He also was in the midst of many significant
        events and was one of Philadelphia's most prominent African
        Americans.  He was chairman of the first Negro Convention in
        1835, helped to organize the 1st African Lodge of Free Masons
        in Philadelphia (1787), and one of the founders of the Free
        African Society (1787 - which grew into St. Thomas African
        Episcopal Church).

1940 - Jimmy Ellis is born in Louisville, Kentucky.   He will become a
        national Golden Gloves champion and will go on to become the WBA
        heavyweight boxing champion from 1968 to 1970.  At 197 pounds,
        he will be the lightest man to win the heavyweight title in the
        past 35 years.

1956 - Eddie Murray is born in Los Angeles, California.   He will become
        a professional baseball player, winning the American League
        Rookie of the Year award in 1977.  Over his career, he will hit
        over 500 career home runs.  That will make him the fifteenth
        player in baseball history to reach that milestone, and will
        join Willie Mays and Henry Aaron as the only players with 500
        home runs and 3000 hits.  Murray currently ranks eleventh all
        time in hits (3,203), eighth in RBI (1,888), and ninth in games
        played (2,950).

1966 - Military leaders oust Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana - while on a peace
        mission, in Peking, to stop the Vietnam War.

1980 - Willie Davenport and Jeff Gadley, the first African Americans to
        represent the United States in the Winter Olympics, place 12th
        in the four-man bobsled competition.  Davenport had been a medal
        winner in the 1968 and 1976 Summer Games.

1982 - Quincy Jones wins five Grammys for "The Dude," including
        'Producer of the Year.'

1987 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar of the Los Angeles Lakers scores his first
        three-point shot.  The leading scorer in NBA history had already
        scored 36,000 points.  Kareem had never scored more than two
        points at a time.

1992 - Edward Perkins is nominated United Nations ambassador by
        President George Bush.  Perkins had formerly served as director-
        general of the United States Foreign Service and ambassador to
        the Republic of South Africa.

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