* Today in Black History - July 13 *
1787 - The Continental Congress passes the Northwest Ordinance,
which, in addition to providing for a government and
civil liberties for the new territory, excludes slavery
northwest of the Ohio River except as punishment for a
crime.
1863 - Over 1,200 people, mostly African Americans, are killed in
anti-draft rioting in New York City. Rioting begins, in
part, when poor whites revolt against military service
exemptions that allow for a payment of $ 300 in lieu of
being drafted, a price that they cannot afford. The
"Draft Riots" also reflect a growing hostility toward
African Americans, who are seen as the cause of the war.
1868 - Oscar J. Dunn, a former slave, is installed as Lt.
Governor of Louisiana.
1919 - Race riots break out in Longview & Gregg counties in
Texas.
1928 - Robert N.C. Nix, Jr. is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
In 1971, he will be the first African American to serve on
the Pennsylvania Supreme Court and, in 1984, the first
African American chief justice of a state supreme court.
Chief Justice Nix will be further honored when he is named
president of the Conference of Chief Justices, a national
organization of judges and justices in the U.S.
1948 - Daphne Maxwell Reid, actress (Frank's Place), is born.
1954 - David Thompson, ex-NBA guard (Phoenix Suns, Seattle
Supersonics), is born.
1963 - Spud Webb, ex-NBA guard (Atlanta Hawks), is born.
1965 - Thurgood Marshall, an Appeals Court judge for three years,
is appointed Solicitor General of the United States, the
first African American to hold the office.
1985 - Arthur Ashe, the first African American male to win
Wimbledon, is inducted into the International Tennis Hall
of Fame.
1985 - The first "Live Aid", an international rock concert in
London, Philadelphia, Moscow and Sydney, takes place to
raise money for Africa's starving people. Over $70
million is collected for African famine relief.
1998 - A jury in Poughkeepsie, New York, rules that the Rev. Al
Sharpton and two others had defamed a former prosecutor
by accusing him of raping Tawana Brawley.
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