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Jet, March 18, 2002 by Simeon Booker

Confidential: In making a Black History Month tribute to Negro League Baseball on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives, New Jersey Congressman Donald M. Payne mentioned that two sons of civil rights leader Frederick Douglass, Charles and Fred, played for the Washington, D.C., Mutual baseball team in the 1860s ...

When the U.S. Conference of Mayors held its annual winter meeting in New York City, Stacy J. Mobley turned out to be among the most quoted speakers of the entire conference. The Black corporation executive, a 30-year DuPont veteran, is senior vice president, chief administrative officer, and general counsel in the company's bicentennial year of scientific research.... A niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Dr. Alfreda King Tooles, joined the Project Twenty in supporting Gerald A. Reynolds as assistant secretary of education for civil rights. A Kansas City utility company lawyer, Reynolds, however, is opposed by the NAACP for the post ... Senate historian Richard A. Baker devoted his February 23 column in the Hill newspaper to the Senate's first Black member, Hiram Revels. After a stormy year of service, Revels returned to Mississippi to become president of Alcorn College ... Federal Reserve Vice Commissioner Roger Ferguson, a Black who won high marks when he took over the controls on Sept 11, the day of the terrorist attack, is regarded as a successor to celebrated Fed chairman Alan Greenspan ... Florida Congressman Alcee Hastings wants Congress to honor the late Sammy Davis, Jr. with a Congressional Gold medal. He says Davis in 50 years overcame major obstacles to become a leading American entertainer.