*		    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 at that time.

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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