*               Today in Black History - April 25               *

1916 - Madeline M. Turner receives a patent for the fruit press.

1918 - Ella Fitzgerald is born in Newport News, Virginia.
        Discovered at an amateur contest at the Apollo Theatre in
        1934, Fitzgerald will be a leading jazz vocalist of the
        swing era.  Known for her renditions of such songs as "A
        Tisket, A Tasket" (her first million-seller), her unique
        scat styling and series of recordings of great American
        songwriters will make her an enduring favorite of jazz
        lovers.

1944 - The United Negro College Fund (UNCF) is founded by Dr.
        Frederick Douglass Patterson, then president of Tuskegee
        Institute, with 27 charter colleges and universities and
        a combined enrollment of 14,000 students.

1945 - The United Nations is founded at a San Francisco meeting
        attended by Black American consultants, most notably
        W.E.B. Du Bois, Mary McLeod Bethune, Ralph J. Bunche and
        Walter White.

1950 - At the NBA's annual players draft, the Boston Celtics select
        Charles "Chuck" Cooper.  He is the first African American
        ever drafted by an NBA team.

1960 - A consent judgment in a Memphis federal court ended
        restrictions barring voters in Fayette County, Tennessee.
        This was the first voting rights case under the Civil
        Rights Act.

1972 - Major General Frederick E. Davidson becomes the first
        African American to lead an Army division when he is
        assigned command of the 8th Infantry Division in Europe.

1990 - Tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon dies in Philadelphia,
        Pennsylvania.  A leading influence in the bop movement
        along with Billy Eckstine and Dizzy Gillespie, Gordon
        played in London in the early 1960's and stayed until the
        mid-1970's.  Elected to the Jazz Hall of Fame in 1980, his
        role in the 1986 movie "'Round Midnight" will revive
        interest in his music and earn him an Academy Award
        nomination for best actor.

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        The source for these facts are "Encyclopedia Britannica,
        "InfoBeat," "I, Too, Sing America - The African American
        Book of Days," and independent research by the
        Information Man.
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