Lauretha Vaird Street Renaming

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May is Law Enforcement Appreciation Month

In 1852- Nathaniel Wells, a former slave, plantation owner, and businessman who lived during the 18th and 19th centuries, was also the first person of African ancestry to become a High Sheriff in England.
In 1862- Robert Smalls and 12 fellow Afro-American seamen captured the Planter, a cotton steamer converted into a Confederate battleship. Smalls piloted the gunboat into Union lines and presented the ship to the U.S. Navy at Charleston Harbor. Smalls was promoted to Captain during the Civil War
In 1865- Two white regiments and a Black regiment, the Sixty-second U.S.C.T., fought the last action of the civil war at White's Ranch, Texas.
In 1914- Birthdate of Joe Louis, boxing great