* 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. 2013 - Bobby Rogers, an original member of Motown's group, "The Miracles," joins the ancestors. His passing was confirmed by the group's longtime front man, Smokey Robinson. Robinson, Rogers and the rest of the Miracles were a cornerstone act for writer-producer Berry Gordy's infant Motown Records, putting songs such as "Shop Around," "Tracks of My Tears" and "The Tears of a Clown" on the R&B and pop charts throughout the 1960s. After Robinson left the group, the Miracles had a No. 1 hit with "Love Machine" in 1976. When the group disbanded in the late 1970s, Rogers started an interior design business. The Miracles were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2012. ______________________________________________________________ Munirah Chronicle is edited by Mr. Rene' A. Perry "The TRUTH shall make you free" E-mail: <[log in to unmask]> Archives: http://listserv.icors.org/archives/Munirah.html http://blackagenda.com/cybercolonies/index.htm _____________________________________________________________ To SUBSCRIBE send E-mail to: <[log in to unmask]> In the E-mail body place: Subscribe Munirah Your FULL Name ______________________________________________________________ Munirah(TM) is a trademark of Information Man. Copyright 1997 - 2016, All Rights Reserved by the Information Man in association with The Black Agenda.