Born on March 5 - March 6

1908		Rex Harrison, actor. My Fair Lady' is turning 50 — and it's a better movie than you remember http://ti.me/1vGUAun via @TIMEHistory
1938		Lynn Margulis, biologist.

Lynn Margulis (1938-2011) http://rdcu.be/gJKw

March 6

1853		Giuseppe Verdi’s opera La Traviata premieres in Venice.
1857		The Supreme Court’s Dred Scott decision holds that blacks cannot be citizens. Title The black/white wealth gap : the transgenerational effects of post-reconstruction sharecropping and racial systems on African Americans today Creator Chandra, Michelle Veena Publisher University of British Columbia Date Created 2011-09-07 Date Issued 2011-09-07 Date 2011 Description The purpose of this study was to investigate how sharecropping systems, a form of racialized agriculture, instituted in the Post-Reconstruction era has had a profound impact on the inability of many African Americans to generate and pass down wealth to successive generations lending to the sizable gap in wealth between whites and blacks (as well as between blacks) in America today. Another aim was to find out how systematic anti-black racism, particularly during Jim Crow, aided in denying a substantial number of southern blacks from entering into the labour market and engaging in the white American ideal of property ownership by re-asserting a white hegemonic order reminiscent of the antebellum period. Another objective was to trace the effects of the Great Migration (1910-1970), the northward and westward migration of close to 8 million blacks out of the South, that occurred as a result of this systemic racism. It was found that the late move of black men out of agriculture and into other areas of the labour market, in addition to the persistent racism that upheld sharecropping systems in the South, severely hampered the ability of many African Americans from building and passing down wealth holdings to their children, helping to explain some of the staggering wealth discrepancies that we see today. Furthermore, the results of the study indicated that some blacks, particularly in Durham, North Carolina, benefited by the anti-black racism in the South by creating a black clientele in predominantly black neighbourhoods where whites did not want to set up shop, allowing some blacks entry into the coveted middle class. The effects of the Great Migration did not benefit all, however, in that it also created clusters of blacks in northern urban areas who faced increasing anti-black racism and exclusion from the marketplace, lending to the creation of a lower middle class and an impoverished underclass. The principle conclusion was that in order to understand present day inequalities among African Americans, there must be a historical analysis that is sensitive to the transgenerational effects of sharecropping, Jim Crow and institutionalized racism. Genre Thesis/Dissertation Type Text Language Eng Collection Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) 2008+ Date Available 2011-09-07 Rights Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 Canada DOI 10.14288/1.0072197 Degree Master of Arts - MA Program Political Science Affiliation Arts, Faculty of Degree Grantor University of British Columbia Graduation Date 2011-11 Campus UBCV Scholarly Level Graduate Rights URI http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ URI http://hdl.handle.net/2429/37153 Aggregated Source Repository DSpace Digital Resource Original Record https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/24/items/1.0072197/source
1860		While campaigning for the presidency, Abraham Lincoln makes a speech defending the right to strike.
1884		Over 100 suffragists, led by Susan B. Anthony, present President Chester A. Arthur with a demand that he voice support for female suffrage.
1888		Louisa May Alcott dies just hours after the burial of her father.
1899		Aspirin is patented following Felix Hoffman’s discoveries about the properties of acetylsalicylic acid.
		Dan Medicinhist Arbog. 2009;37:79-98. [From willow bark to acetylsalicylic acid]. [Article in Danish] Norn S1, Permin H, Kruse PR, Kruse E. Author information Abstract Acetylsalicylic acid is one of the most widely used drugs in the world. Its ancestry the salicylates, including salicin and salicylic acid, are found in the bark and leaves of the willow and poplar trees. The ancient Sumerians and Egyptians, as well as Hippocrates, Celsus, Pliny the Elder, Dioscorides and Galen used these natural products as remedies for pain, fever and inflammation. In the Middle Ages these remedies were used for fever and rheumatism by Hildegard of Bingen and Henrik Harpestreng. The first "clinical trial" was reported by Edward Stone in 1763 with a successful treatment of malarial fever with the willow bark. In 1876 the antirheumatic effect of salicin was described by T. MacLagan, and that of salicylic acid by S. Stricker and L. Riess. Acetylsalicylic acid was synthesized by Charles Gerhardt in 1853 and in 1897 by Felix Hoffmann in the Bayer Company. The beneficial effect of acetylsalicylic acid (Aspirin) on pain and rheumatic fever was recognized by K. Witthauer and J. Wohlgemuth, and the mechanism of action was explained in 1971 by John Vane. Today the antithrombotic effect of acetylsalicylic acid and new aspects of ongoing research demonstrates a still living drug.
Born on March 6
1475		Michelangelo Buonarroti, painter, sculptor and architect.
1806		Elizabeth Barret Browning, poet (Sonnets from the Portuguese).
		Elizabeth Barrett Browning and the Woman Question https://shar.es/1CFtRB via @sharethis
1899		Richard Leo Simon, publisher, partner of Max Schuster.
1908		Lou Costello, American comedian, partner of Bud Abbott.
1928		Gabriel Garcia-Marquez, Columbian-born novelist (One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera).
1937		Valentina Nikolayeva-Tereshkova, Russian astronaut, the first woman to orbit the Earth.
1944		Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, operatic soprano. http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/tek0bio-1