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******* Today in Black History – September 25, 2018 *******
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 man of
African descent to
win a national boxing crown.
1911 - Eric Eustace Williams is born in Port of Spain, Trinidad
and
Tobago. He will be
educated at Queen's Royal College in Port
of Spain, where he
will excel at academics and football. He
will win an island
scholarship in 1932, allowing him to
attend St
Catherine's Society, Oxford (which will subsequently
become St
Catherine's College, Oxford). In 1935, he will
receive first-class
honours for his B.A in history, and be
ranked in first
place among University of Oxford students
graduating in
History in 1935. He will also represent the
university in
football. In 1938 he will obtain his doctorate
from Oxford. His
doctoral thesis will be titled "The Economic
Aspects of the
Abolition of the Slave Trade and West Indian
Slavery," and
published as "Capitalism and Slavery" in 1944.
On January 15,
1956, he will inaugurate his own political
party, the People's
National Movement (PNM), which will take
Trinidad and Tobago
into independence in 1962, and dominate
its post-colonial
politics. He will serve as the first Prime
Minister of
Trinidad and Tobago. He will serve in that office
from 1962 until his
transition in 1981. He will be known as a
noted Caribbean
historian, and be widely regarded as "The
Father of The
Nation." He will join the ancestors on March 29,
1981.
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 - Robert Allen "Bob" McAdoo, Jr. is born in
Greensboro, North
Carolina. He will
become a one of the best-shooting big
men of all time in
professional basketball. He will win
Rookie of the Year,
a Most Valuable Player Award and three
consecutive scoring
championships, all in his first four
years in the NBA.
Over fourteen seasons, He will score
18,787 points and average
22.1 point per game. A five-time
NBA All Star, he
will shoot .503 from the field and .754
from the line,
scoring in double figures in all but one
season. He will be
inducted into the Naismith Memorial
Basketball Hall of
Fame in 2000 and the College Basketball
Hall of Fame in
2006.
1957 - With 300 U.S. Army troops standing guard, nine African
American children
forced to withdraw the previous day
from Central High
School in Little Rock, Arkansas,
because of unruly
white crowds, are escorted to back to
class.
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 - Scottie Maurice Pippen is born in Hamburg, Arkansas. He
will become a
professional basketball player and will be
traded to the
Houston Rockets in 1998 after 11
distinguished
seasons with the Chicago Bulls, for whom he
averaged 18.0
points, 6.8 rebounds and 5.3 assists in 833
NBA games. He will
earn All-NBA First Team honors three
times in his career
and All-Defensive First Team honors
in
each of seven
seasons (1992-1999). In addition, he will
earn NBA World
Championships in six of the eight years and
Olympic gold medals
in 1992 and 1996. He will be selected
as one of the 50
Greatest Players in NBA History in 1996.
He will be inducted
into the Naismith Memorial Basketball
Hall of Fame on
August 13, 2010.
1968 - Willard Carroll "Will" Smith, Jr. is born in
Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania. He will become a rapper at the age of 12 and
will be known for
his hits "Nightmare on My Street" and
"Parents Just
Don't Understand." In 1990, he will start his
acting career with
a six-year run as the "Fresh Prince of
Bel Air." He
will go to become a major motion picture box
office attraction,
starring in "Six Degrees of Separation,"
"Made in
America," "Independence Day," "Men In
Black," and
"Wild, Wild
West."
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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The source for these facts are "Encyclopedia Britannica,
"Before the
Mayflower", "Black Firsts" and independent
research by Mr. Rene’ A. Perry, Sr.
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