*               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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