*                    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 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.

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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