*		     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. He will
	join the ancestors on December 25, 2006.

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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