*  Today in Black History - March 3  *

1820 - In an attempt to resolve the conflict between pro and antislavery
        forces, the Missouri Compromise becomes law .  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" (dry clean) 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.

1865 - 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 a 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," a song that
        would be forever linked to him.  The song combined scat-singing
        with nonsense syllables and lyrics of drug use, recounting how
        Minnie and her cocaine-using lover, Smokey Joe, went to
        Chinatown, where "he showed her how to kick the gong around" -
        slang for opium smoking.

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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