SANDY KOZEL
Thomas Jefferson (April 13 April 2], 1743 – July 4, 1826)
Future President Thomas Jefferson, drafter of the Declaration
of Independence and the nation’s preeminent political theorist,
was born on April 13, 1743.
He was the third president of the United States from 1801 to
1809 and the nation’s first U.S. secretary of state under
George Washington.
(FOX NEWS) – Former U.S. Rep. Mia Love, R-Utah, died on Sunday
at the age of 49, according to her family. She lost her battle with
cancer.
Love, who was the daughter of Haitian immigrants and the first
black Republican woman elected to Congress in 2014, "passed
away peacefully" surrounded by family.
Love had been undergoing treatment for brain cancer, but her
daughter said earlier this month the former congresswoman’s
cancer was no longer responding to it.
Ludmya "Mia" Love (December 6, 1975 – March 23, 2025)
A riot brook out in Harlem when local residents suspect that a
Black boy has been beaten, and possibly killed, by a white
business owner. Although the rumors turn out to be false,
the riot highlighted the struggles of Harlem’s historically Black community against discrimination during the Great Depression.
Many modern scholars consider the 1935 Harlem riot the first
modern race riot.
On March 17, 1992, white South Africans vote overwhelmingly
in a referendum to end minority rule, by a margin of 68.7
percent to 31.2 percent. Thus ended the turbulent period
called apartheid, a racial segregation policy that separated
the minority white population by designating areas and
activities prohibited to Black people.
“Today we have closed the book on apartheid,” President F.W.
de Klerk said on the day after the vote.
Two years after the vote to end apartheid, in 1994, South Africa
held its first free and nonracial election, and Nelson Mandela
(above) an activist who had spent 27 years in prison for his
opposition to apartheid—became the first Black president of
the county.
Frederik de Klerk (left) with Nelson Mandela, 1992.
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (18 July 1918 – 5 December 2013)
On March 13, 1865, with the main Rebel armies facing long
odds against much larger Union armies, the Confederacy,
in a desperate measure, reluctantly approved the use of
Black troops.
The situation was bleak for the Confederates in the spring
of 1865. The Yankees had captured large swaths of Southern
territory, General William T. Sherman’s Union army was tearing
through the Carolinas, and General Robert E. Lee was trying
valiantly to hold the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia,
against General Ulysses S. Grant’s growing force.
