*		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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