*               Today in Black History - March 3                *

1820 - The Missouri Compromise becomes law in an attempt to resolve the
        conflict between pro and antislavery forces.  In the final law,
        Missouri joins the Union as a slave state while Maine joins
        as a free one.  The measure prohibits slavery to the north of
        the southern boundary of Missouri.

1821 - Thomas L. Jennings receives a patent for an invention to "dry
        scour" clothes. It is the earliest known patent granted to an
        African American.

1865 - Congress establishes the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and
        Abandoned Lands, commonly known as the Freedman's Bureau, to
        provide health and education to newly freed slaves displaced by
        the Civil War.

        Congress charters Freedmen's Savings and Trust Bank with
        business confined to African Americans.

1869 - The University of South Carolina is opened to all races.  Two
        African Americans, B.A. Boseman and Francis L. Cardozo were
        elected to seven-man board of trustees.

1896 - The South Carolina legislature passes a measure creating the
        Colored Normal Industrial, Agricultural and Mechanical College
        (later South Carolina State) in Orangeburg.

1931 - Cab Calloway records the classic "Minnie The Moocher." It will
        become the first million-selling jazz album.

1962 - Jacqueline Joyner is born in East Saint Louis, Illinois. Joyner
        Kersee becomes an Olympic champion, winning two medals (silver
        in 1984 and gold in 1988) in the heptathlon and another gold
        medal in the long jump at the 1988 Games in Seoul, South Korea.

1967 - Grenada gains partial independence from Great Britain.

1988 - Juanita Kidd Stout becomes the first African American woman to
        serve on a state supreme court when she is sworn in as an
        associate justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

1991 - Motorist Rodney King is severely beaten by four Los Angeles
        police officers after a high-speed chase in a scene captured on
        home video by George Holliday.

1998 - Larry Doby, the second African American to play major league
        baseball and the first African American to play in the American
        League (Cleveland Indians), is selected for induction into the
        Baseball Hall of Fame.

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        The source for these facts are "Encyclopedia Britannica,
        "InfoBeat," "I, Too, Sing America - The African American
        Book of Days," and independent research by the
        Information Man.
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