* 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. He will join the ancestors on
June 19, 1993.
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." She will join
the ancestors on November 25, 1993.
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. She will be nitially
known for her work within the concert repertoire through
performances with major orchestras during the early and
mid-1970s. She will make her opera debut in 1975. She will
expand her repertoire into lyric soprano and coloratura
soprano roles during the 1980s and early 1990s until her
eventual dismissal from the Metropolitan Opera in 1994. On
April 16, 2008, she will sing an arrangement of The Lord's
Prayer for Pope Benedict XVI on the occasion of his Papal
State visit to the White House. This will mark the second
time she sings for a pope. (She first sang for Pope John Paul
II in 1985 as soprano soloist in Mozart's Coronation Mass.)
Later that year, she will perform "Superwoman" on the American
Music Awards with Alicia Keys and Queen Latifah. Since that
time she will appear in the occasional piano-voice recital,
including a recital of works by Schubert, Liszt, and
Rachmaninoff in Costa Mesa, California accompanied by Olga Kern
(February 2010) and a recital in Carmel, Indiana accompanied by
Joel A. Martin (April 2013). After a 22-year absence from the
Met, she will perform a concert of spirituals at the Metropolitan
Opera House in November 2016.
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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