*		     Today in Black History - May 3		      *

1845 - Macon B. Allen becomes the first African American formally admitted
	to the bar in Massachusetts when he passes the examination in 
	Worcester.  The previous year, he was admitted to the bar in Maine, 
	making him the first licensed African American attorney in the 
	United States.

1902 - African American jockey Jimmy Winkfield wins his second Kentucky 
	Derby in a row astride Alan-a-Dale.  With Winkfield's wins, African
	American jockeys have won 15 of 28 Derby races.

1921 - Walker Smith, Jr. is born in Detroit, Michigan.  He will begin his
	career as a boxer by using the amateur certificate of another boxer,
	Ray Robinson, which enables him to enter contests at a young age. 
	After winning the welterweight Golden Glove titles in 1939 and 1940,
	he will turn professional.  He will continue to box under that name 
	as a professional and will be known as Sugar Ray Robinson.  He will
	be a world welterweight champion and five-time middleweight
champion, 
	with a 175-19-6 record and 109 knockouts from 1940-65. He will win
	his last middleweight title at the age of 38. He will be voted the
	Associated Press Fighter of the Century in December, 1999.

1933 - James Brown is born in Barnwell, South Carolina.  The only child of 
	a poor backwoods family, he will be sent, to Augusta, Georgia at age

	five, to live at an aunt's brothel. He will evolve from a 
	juvenile delinquent to become one of the most influential Rhythm 
	& Blues singers, with a career that will span more than five decades
	and include the hits "I Got You," "Cold Sweat," "Living in America,"

	"Prisoner of Love," "Sing It Loud, I'm Black and I'm Proud."  
	Incarcerated in 1988 for aggravated assault, Brown will be released 
	in 1991 and return to the recording scene, where he will continue to

	influence a new generation of artists including M.C. Hammer, Prince,

	and many others. He will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of
	Fame on January 23, 1986 and on February 25, 1992, will receive a
	Lifetime Achievement Award at the 34th annual Grammy Awards.

1948 - In Shelley v. Kraemer, the Supreme Court rules that courts cannot 
	enforce segregational housing covenants, which bar persons from 
	owning or occupying property because of their race.

1967 - African American students seize the finance building at Northwestern 
	University and demand that African American oriented 
	curriculum and campus reforms be implemented.

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