*      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, joins
        the ancestors 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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