* Today in Black History - August 13 *
1881 - The first African American nursing school opens at Spelman College
in Atlanta, Georgia.
1892 - The first issue of the Baltimore Afro-American is published.
1906 - African American soldiers raid Brownsville, Texas in retaliation
for racial insults. One white man is killed, two are wounded.
1911 - James B. Parsons is born in Kansas City, Missouri. After an early
career in music, he will become an attorney, superior court judge
in Cook County, Illinois, and assistant U.S. Attorney, and in 1961,
the first African American appointed to a lifetime federal
judgeship in the continental United States.
1917 - Claudia McNeil is born in Baltimore, Maryland. She will start her
career as a singer and tour with Katherine Dunham before finding
fame as an actress. Among her most notable roles will be as Lena
Younger in both the play and movie versions of "A Raisin in the
Sun."
1948 - Kathleen Battle is born in Portsmouth, Ohio. She will become an
operatic soprano, winner of Grammy awards in 1987 and 1988, and
will be considered by many to be one of the finest modern opera
singers.
1948 - Cleveland Indians rookie pitcher, Satchel Paige, throws his first
complete game in the major leagues at the age of 42. He allows
the Chicago White Sox only five hits in the 5-0 shutout.
1953 - President Eisenhower establishes the Government Contract Compliance
Committee to supervise anti-discrimination regulations in
government contracts.
1963 - Noted civil rights and labor leader, A. Philip Randolph strongly
protests the AFL-CIO Executive Council's failure to endorse the
August 28 March on Washington.
1979 - Lou Brock, of the St. Louis Cardinals, gets his 3,000th career hit
while leading the Cardinals past the Chicago Cubs, 3-2.
1983 - Daley Thompson of Britain wins the decathlon championship at the
World Track and Field Championship in Helsinski, Finland.
1989 - Searchers in Ethiopia find the wreckage of a plane which had
disappeared almost a week earlier while carrying Texas Congressman
Mickey Leland and 15 other people. There are no survivors.
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