*		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 (later Kersee) is born in East Saint Louis,
	Illinois. She will become 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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