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* 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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