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MAR 3 - 9, 2022 SOURCE: BLACK AMERICA WEB
MARCH 6
1857 – The U.S. Supreme Court issues a decision in the Dred Scott case, affirming the right of slave owners to take their slaves into the Western territories.
MARCH 7
1539 – Estevanico, one of the first native Africans to reach the present-day continental United States, sets out to explore what is now the southwestern part of the U.S. 1927 – In the U.S. Supreme Court case Nixon v. Herndon, the court strikes down a Texas law forbidding Blacks from voting in the state Democratic Party primary. 1942 – The first class of African American pilots at Tuskegee Army Air Field completes advanced pilot training. 1965 – The Selma to Montgomery marches (below), held to champion voting rights for African Americans and in protest of segregation, begin in Selma, Alabama.
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THE NOTORIOUS B.I.G. MARCH 3
1821 – Thomas L. Jennings patents a dry-cleaning process, becomes the first Black American to receive a patent. 1865 – The Freedmen's Bureau, a federal government agency that aided freed slaves in the South during the Reconstruction era, is established. 1991 – Black motorist Rodney King is beaten by Los Angeles Police Department officers following a highspeed car chase. The incident is captured on video and incites a massive riot in
MARCH 4
1825 – Alexander Thomas Augusta, the first Black professor of medicine in the United States and the Army's first African American physician, is born in Norfolk, Virginia. 1876 – PBS Pinchback, the nation's first Black governor, is denied by Congress a U.S. Senate seat he won four years earlier. 1993 – Famed jazz singer Billy Eckstine dies in Pittsburgh at 78 from complications following a heart attack.
MARCH 9
1841 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the African slaves who seized control of the Amistad slave ship had been illegally forced into slavery, and thus are free under American law. 1961 – African American corporate executive, educator and philanthropist Clifton R. Wharton is sworn in as U.S. ambassador to Norway. 1966 – Andrew F. Brimmer is sworn in as the first Black governor of the Federal Reserve Board. 1997 – Famed rapper The Notorious B.I.G. is shot and killed in Los Angeles at age 24. WI
1954 – J. Ernest Wilkins Jr. is appointed assistant secretary of labor by President Eisenhower, becoming the first African American to hold a sub-Cabinet position in the federal government.
MARCH 5
1770 – Crispus Attucks, widely considered to be the first American casualty in the American Revolutionary War, is killed in the Boston Massacre. 1939 – Acclaimed playwright Charles Fuller, best known for his Pulitzer-winning play "A Soldier's Play," is born in Philadelphia. 1985 – The U.S. Postal Service issues the eighth stamp in its Black Heritage series, honoring Mary McLeod Bethune.
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