March 1, 1994 - Leonard S. Coleman, Jr.
elected president of the
National Baseball League.
March 2, 1867 - U.S. Congress enacts charter
to establish Howard
University.
March 3, 1865 - Freeman's Bureau established
by federal government to
aid newly freed slaves.
March 4, 1965 - Bill Russell of the Boston
Celtics honored as NBA
most valuable player for fourth time in five
years.
March 5, 1770 - Crispus Attucks becomes one
of the first casualties
of the American Revolution.
March 6, 1857 - U.S. Supreme Court issues
Dred Scott decision.
March 7, 1965 - U.S. Supreme Court upholds
key provisions of the
Voting Rights Act of 1965.
March 8, 1977 - Henry L. Marsh III becomes
first African American
elected mayor of Richmond, Va.
March 9, 1941 - Amistad mutineers freed by
U.S. Supreme Court.
March 10, 1913 - Harriet Tubman dies.
March 11, 1959 - Lorraine Hansberry's "A
Raisin In the Sun" opens at
Barrymore Theater, New York, the first play
by a Black woman to
premier on Broadway.
March 12, 1932 - Andrew Young, former U.N.
ambassador and former
mayor of Atlanta, born.
March 13, 1773 - Jean Baptiste Pointe Du
Sable, black pioneer and
explorer, founded Chicago.
March 14, 1965 - Montgomery bus boycott ends
when municipal bus
service is desegregated.
March 15, 1988 - Eugene Antonio Marino,
first Black archbishop,
assigned to Atlanta.
March 16, 1846 - Rebecca Cole, second Black
female physician in
America, born.
March 17, 1885 - William F. Cosgrove patents
automatic stop plug for
gas and oil pipes. 1890 - Charles B. Brooks
patents street sweeper.
March 18, 1822 - The Phoenix Society, a
literary and educational
group, founded by Blacks in New York City.
March 19, 1971 - Rev. Leon Sullivan elected
to board of directors of
General Motors.
March 20, 1883 - Jan. E. Matzeliger patents
shoe-making machine 1912
- Carter Woodson receives doctorate from
Harvard University.
March 21, 1965 - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
leads march from Selma to
Montgomery, Ala., for voting rights.
March 22, 1898 - J.W. Smith patents lawn
sprinkler.
March 23, 1873 - Slavery abolished in Puerto
Rico.
March 24, 1837 - Canada gives African
American citizens the right to
vote.
March 25, 1843 - Explorer Jacob Dodson sets
out in Search of the
Northwest Passage.
March 26, 1872 - Thomas J. Martin patents
fire extinguisher. 1911 -
William H. Lewis becomes U.S. assistant
attorney general.
March 27, 1930 - Of the 116,000 African
Americans in professional
positions, more than two-thirds were
teachers or ministers.
March 28, 1870 - Jonathan S. Wright becomes
first Black state Supreme
Court justice in South Carolina.
March 29, 1898 - W.J. Ballow patents
combined hat rack and table.
March 30, 1870 - Fifteenth Amendment
ratified, guaranteeing voting
rights to African Americans
March 31, 1988 - Toni Morrison wins Pulitzer
Prize for Beloved.
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