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BLACK
HISTORY MONTH CALENDAR
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February 1
John
S. Rock becomes the first African-American attorney to
practice
before the United States Supreme Court. (1865)
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February 2
African
American Scientist Ernest E. Just receives the
first
NAACP Spingarn Medal. (1915)
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February 3
Bill
White is named the first African American President
of
Baseball's National League. (1989)
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February 4
Civil
Rights Activist Rosa Parks is born (1913)
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February 5
African
American inventor Willie Johnson is issued
patent
for invention of the egg beater. (1884)
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February 6
African
American tennis legend and
human
rights activist Arthur Ashe dies. (1993)
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February 7
African
American ragtime composer
and
performer Eubie Blake is born (1883)
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February 8
18
year old San Jose native Debi Thomas becomes
the
first African American to win the women's Senior Singles
US
Figure Skating Championship (1986)
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February 9
Black
dialect poet Paul Laurence Dunbar dies. (1906)
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February 10
Ron
Brown is elected the first African American Chairperson
for
the Democratic Party. (1989)
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February 11
ANC
Leader and Human Rights Activist
Nelson
Mandela is released from South African
prison
after 27 years of confinement. (1990)
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February 12
NAACP
Founded (1909)
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February 13
National
Negro Baseball League is organized. (1920)
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February 14
Abolitionist
Leader Frederick Douglass is born. (1817)
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February 15
Jazz
Legend Nat King Cole dies. (1965)
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February 16
World
renowned actor Levar Burton, famous for his portrayal
of
Kunta Kinte in Alex Haley's Roots, is born. (1957)
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February 17
Black
Panther Party Leader Huey P. Newton is born. (1942)
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February 18
Toni
Morrison, the first African American
to
win Nobel Prize in Literature, is born (1931)
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February 19
President
Bill Clinton grants a posthumous pardon to
Henry
O. Flipper, the first black West Point graduate,
reversing
Flipper's racially motivated discharge. (1999)
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February 20
Sidney
Poitier, the first African American man
to
win an Academy Award, is born. (1927)
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February 21
Civil
Rights Leader Malcolm X is assassinated. (1965)
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February 22
Renowned
author, abolitionist and suffragist
Frances
Ellen Watkins Harper dies . (1911)
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February 23
Civil
Rights Leader WEB DuBois is born. (1868)
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February 24
Daniel
Alexander Payne, the first
African
American President of an American College, is born. (1811)
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February 25
Hiram
Rhoades Revels is sworn in as the
first
African American United States Senator. (1870)
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February 26
The
Fifteenth Amendment guaranteeing that the right to vote
will
not be denied on the basis of race is passed by Congress. (1869)
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February 27
Charlotte
Ray, who is the first African American woman lawyer,
graduates
from Howard University. (1872)
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February 28
African
American inventor Richard Spikes
is
issued patent for automatic gear shift. (1932)
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