March 6, 1857 – U.S. Supreme Court issued Dred Scott decision.
March 7, 1965 – U.S. Supreme Court upheld key provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
March 8, 1977 – Henry L. Marsh, III, became first African American elected mayor of Richmond, VA.
March 9, 1941 – Amistad mutineers freed by U.S. Supreme Court.
March 10, 1913 – Harriet Tubman died.
March 11, 1959 – Lorraine Hansberry’s “A Raisin In the Sun” opened at Barrymore Theater, New York, the first play written by a black woman to premier on Broadway.
March 12, 1932 – Andrew Young, former U.N. ambassador and former mayor of Atlanta, was born.
