*		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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