*                   Today in Black History - July 2                  *

1777 - Vermont, not one of the original 13 states, becomes the first U.S.
        territory to abolish slavery.

1822 - Denmark Vesey, slave insurrectionist leader, and 5 aides are hanged
        in Blake's Landing, Charleston, South Carolina.

1908 - Thurgood Marshall is born in Baltimore, Maryland.  He will have the
        most distinguished legal career of any African American as the NAACP's
        national counsel, director-counsel of the organization's Legal Defense
        and Educational Fund, and leader of some of the most important legal
        challenges for African Americans' constitutional rights, including
        "Brown v. Board of Education" in 1954.  In addition to sitting as a
        circuit judge for the Second Circuit, Marshall will be named U.S.
        Solicitor General in 1965 and associate justice of the U.S. Supreme
        Court in 1967, where he will serve for 24 years.

1925 - Patrice Lumumba, revolutionary and first prime minister of the
        Republic of the Congo, is born in Stanleyville, Belgian Congo.

1927 - Brock Peters, actor/singer (Carmen Jones, To Kill a Mockingbird), is
        born.

1930 - Fritz "Ahmad Jamal" Jones, jazz pianist, is born.

1932 - Sammy Turner, vocalist (Lavender Blue) is born in Paterson, New Jersey.

1943 - Lt.  Charles Hall, of Brazil, Indiana, becomes the first African
        American pilot in World War II to shoot down a Nazi plane.

1946 - Anthony Overton, publisher, cosmetics manufacturer and banker, dies in
        Chicago, Illinois at the age of 81.

1964 - President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Bill, which includes
        public accommodation and fair employment sections.  The Civil Rights
        Act prohibits segregation in employment, education, and public
        accommodation on the basis of race, sex, age, national origin or
        religion.

1986 - The U.S. Supreme Court upholds affirmative action in two rulings.

1990 - "Devil in a Blue Dress", a mystery novel by Walter Moseley set in South-
        Central Los Angeles, is published.  Its realism and strong African
        American characters will earn its author enthusiastic praise and a
        nomination for best novel by the Mystery Writers of America.

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