* Today in Black History - February 25 *
1867 - Tennessee Gov. William Gannaway Brownlow issues a proclamation
warning that the unlawful events of the Ku Klux Klan "must and
SHALL cease" and that militia would be immediately organized
against the organization. This is in response to Ku Klux Klan
activities in a nine county area. The Klan’s aim is to
reverse the interlocking changes sweeping over the South
during the Reconstruction: to destroy the Republican’s party’s
infrastructure, undermine the Reconstruction state, reestablish
control of the black labor force, and restore racial
subordination in every aspect of Southern life. (Editor's Note:
The KKK was founded in Pulaski, Tennessee on December 15, 1865)
1870 - Hiram Rhoades Revels of Mississippi becomes the first African
American Senator. He is elected by the Mississippi legislature
to fill the Senate seat vacated by Jefferson Davis. After the
Senate term expires, he will become the first President of Alcorn
A&M College, in Lorman, Mississippi (the first African American
land-grant institution in the United States).
1948 - Martin Luther King, Jr. is ordained as a Baptist minister. After
graduating from Morehouse College in June, 1948, he will enter
the Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania.
1964 - Twenty-two year old Cassius Clay becomes world heavyweight boxing
champion when he defeats Sonny Liston in Miami, Florida. The
feared Liston is the favorite, but Clay predicts he will "float
like a butterfly, sting like a bee." Soon after his victory,
Clay will assume his Muslim name of Muhammad Ali. He will be
considered by many, the greatest heavyweight champion of all
time.
1978 - Daniel "Chappie" James, Jr. joins the ancestors at the age of 58
in Colorado Springs, Colorado. James was an early graduate of
the Tuskegee Institute Flying School and flew more than 100
missions during the Korean War. He was the first African
American to achieve the rank of four-star general.
1980 - Robert E. Hayden, African American poet and former poetry
consultant to the Library of Congress, joins the ancestors in
Ann Arbor, Michigan. Hayden's most notable works include "Words
in Mourning Time and Angle of Ascent: New and Selected Poems."
1991 - Adrienne Mitchell becomes the first African American woman to
die in a combat zone in the Persian Gulf War when she joins the
ancestors after being killed in her military barracks in Dharan,
Saudi Arabia.
1992 - Natalie Cole, Patti LaBelle, Lisa Fischer, Luther Vandross, B.B.
King, Boyz II Men, and James Brown, among others, win Grammy
awards in ceremonies hosted by Whoopi Goldberg.
1999 - A jury in Jasper, Texas, sentences white supremacist John
William King to death for chaining James Byrd Jr., an African
American man, to a pickup truck and dragging him to pieces.
2000 - The killers of unarmed African immigrant Amadou Diallo, four white
New York police officers, are acquitted of all charges by a jury
in Albany, New York. Diallo had been fired upon 41 times, with 19
shots hitting him while holding only his wallet in the vestibule of
his own home.
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