*               Today in Black History - March 1                    *

1739 - The British sign a peace treaty with the Black "Chimarrones" 
	in Jamaica.

1780 - Pennsylvania becomes the first state to abolish slavery.

1841 - Blanche Kelso Bruce, the first African American to serve a 
	full term in the United States Senate, is born a slave in 
	Prince Edward County, Virginia. He will join the ancestors on 
             March 17, 1898.

1864 - Rebecca Lee becomes the first African American woman to 
	receive an American medical degree, when she graduates from 
	the New England Female Medical College in Boston.  She, 
	along with Rebecca Cole and Susan McKinney, is one of the 
	first African American female physicians.

1871 - James Milton Turner is named minister to Liberia and becomes 
	the first African American diplomat accredited to an African 
	country.  James W. Mason was named minister in March, 
             1870, but never took his post.

1875 - The (first) Civil Rights Bill is passed by Congress. The bill, 
	which gives African Americans equal rights in inns, theaters, 
	public transportation, and other public amusements, will be 
	overturned by the Supreme Court in 1883.

1914 - Ralph Waldo Ellison is born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He 
	will become a well known author, best known for his book 
	"Invisible Man," for which he will win the 1953 National Book
	Award. He will join the ancestors on April 16, 1994.

1927 - Harry Belafonte is born in New York City. He will become a 
	successful folk singer, actor, and winner of the first Emmy 
	awarded to an African American.  His commitment to civil and 
	human rights will lead him to march with Martin Luther King, 
	Jr. in Montgomery, Selma, and Washington, DC.  Among his 
	achievements will be Kennedy Center Honors in 1989.

1940 - Richard Wright's "Native Son" is published by Harper and 
	Brothers.

1949 - Joe Louis retires as heavyweight boxing champion after holding 
	the title for a record eleven years and eight months. 

1960 - Four national chain stores announce on October 17 that 
	food counters in about 150 stores in 112 cities in North 
	Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Texas, Tennessee,
	Missouri, Maryland, Florida and Oklahoma have been 
             integrated.

1960 - The Alabama State Board of Education expels nine Alabama
             State University students for participating in sit-in 
	demonstrations.

1960 - Montgomery, Alabama, police break up a protest demonstration 
	on the Alabama State University campus and arrest thirty-five 
	students, a teacher and her husband.

1960 - San Antonio, Texas, becomes the first major Southern city to 
	integrate lunch counters.

1960 - Pope John elevates Bishop Laurian Rugambwa of Tanganyika to 
	the College of Cardinals, the first cardinal of African 
	descent in the modern era.

1963 - Carl T. Rowan is named United States ambassador to Finland.

1967 - The House of Representatives votes to expel Adam Clayton 
	Powell, Jr. from the 90th Congress. (The Supreme Court will 
	rule in 1969 that Powell will have to be seated.) 

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