*                    Today in Black History - June 13                    *

1774 - Rhode Island prohibits the importation of slaves, the first state
        to do so.

1866 - The House of Representatives passes the 14th Amendment, guaranteeing
        civil rights for African Americans.

1868 - Ex-slave Oscar T. Dunn is installed as Lieutenant Governor of
        Louisiana.  It is the highest executive office held by an African
        American.

1870 - Richard T. Greener becomes the first African American to graduate
        from Harvard University.

1893 - T.W. Stewart patents a mop.

1937 - Eleanor Holmes (later Norton) is born in Washington, DC.  A graduate
        of the Yale University School of Law, Norton will become chairperson
        of the New York City Commission on Human Rights, and a Georgetown
        University law professor before being elected a non-voting delegate
        to Congress representing the District of Columbia.

1967 - President Lyndon Johnson appoints U.S. Court of Appeals Judge
        Thurgood Marshall to fill the seat of retiring Supreme Court
        Associate Justice Tom C. Clark. On August 30, after a heated
        debate, the Senate will confirm Marshall's nomination by a vote of
        69 to 11. Two days later, he will be sworn in by Chief Justice Earl
        Warren, making him the first African American in history to sit on
        America's highest court.

1977 - The convicted assassin of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King
        Jr., James Earl Ray, is recaptured following his escape three days
        earlier from a Tennessee prison.

1989 - Kareem Abdul Jabbar plays in his final NBA game as the Detroit
        Pistons sweep the Los Angeles Lakers for the NBA title.

1990 - The United Nations calls on South Africa to free Nelson Mandela.

1990 - Bernadette Locke becomes the first female on-court men's basketball
        coach when she is named assistant coach of the University of
        Kentucky men's basketball team.

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