*		    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 Helsinki, 
	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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