*                   Today in Black History - August 13               *

1881 - The first African American nursing school opens at Spelman College
        in Atlanta, Georgia.

1892 - The first issue of the Baltimore Afro-American is published.

1906 - African American soldiers raid Brownsville, Texas in retaliation
        for racial insults.  One white man is killed, two are wounded.

1911 - James B. Parsons is born in Kansas City, Missouri.  After an early
        career in music, he will become an attorney, superior court judge
        in Cook County, Illinois, and assistant U.S. Attorney, and in 1961,
        the first African American appointed to a lifetime federal
        judgeship in the continental United States.

1917 - Claudia McNeil is born in Baltimore, Maryland.  She will start her
        career as a singer and tour with Katherine Dunham before finding
        fame as an actress.  Among her most notable roles will be as Lena
        Younger in both the play and movie versions of "A Raisin in the Sun."

1948 - Kathleen Battle is born in Portsmouth, Ohio. She will become an
        operatic soprano, winner of Grammy awards in 1987 and 1988, and
        will be considered by many to be one of the finest modern opera
        singers.

1948 - Cleveland Indians rookie pitcher, Satchel Paige, throws his first
        complete game in the major leagues at the age of 42.  He allows
        the Chicago White Sox only five hits in the 5-0 shutout.

1953 - President Eisenhower establishes the Government Contract Compliance
        Committee to supervise anti-discrimination regulations in government
        contracts.

1963 - Noted civil rights and labor leader, A. Philip Randolph strongly
        protests the AFL-CIO Executive Council's failure to endorse the
        August 28 March on Washington.

1979 - Lou Brock, of the St. Louis Cardinals, gets his 3,000th career hit
        while leading the Cardinals past the Chicago Cubs, 3-2.

1983 - Daley Thompson of Britain wins the decathlon championship at the
        World Track and Field Championship in Helinski, Finland.

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