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March 24 World Tuberculosis Day

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 13, 1773:
Jean Baptiste Pointe Du Sable, black pioneer and explorer, founded Chicago.

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.