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* Today in Black History - June 13 *
1774 - Rhode Island prohibits the importation of slaves, the first state
to do so.
1866 - The House of Representatives passes the 14th Amendment, guaranteeing
civil rights for African Americans.
1868 - Ex-slave Oscar T. Dunn is installed as Lieutenant Governor of
Louisiana. It is the highest executive office held by an African
American.
1870 - Richard T. Greener becomes the first African American to graduate
from Harvard University.
1893 - T.W. Stewart patents a mop.
1937 - Eleanor Holmes (later Norton) is born in Washington, DC. A graduate
of the Yale University School of Law, Norton will become chairperson
of the New York City Commission on Human Rights, and a Georgetown
University law professor before being elected a non-voting delegate
to Congress representing the District of Columbia.
1967 - President Lyndon Johnson appoints U.S. Court of Appeals Judge
Thurgood Marshall to fill the seat of retiring Supreme Court
Associate
Justice Tom C. Clark. On August 30, after a heated debate, the
Senate
will confirm Marshall's nomination by a vote of 69 to 11. Two days
later, he will be sworn in by Chief Justice Earl Warren, making him
the first African American in history to sit on America's highest
court.
1977 - The convicted assassin of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King
Jr., James Earl Ray, is recaptured following his escape three days
earlier from a Tennessee prison.
1989 - Kareem Abdul Jabbar plays in his final NBA game as the Detroit
Pistons sweep the Los Angeles Lakers for the NBA title.
1990 - The United Nations calls on South Africa to free Nelson Mandela.
1990 - Bernadette Locke becomes the first female on-court men's basketball
coach when she is named assistant coach of the University of
Kentucky
men's basketball team.
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