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Post by Common on Feb 25, 2013 9:37:09 GMT -5
February 23, 1868
On this day Dr.William Edward Burghardt DuBois, educator and civil rights advocate, is born in Great Barrington, Mass.
February 23, 1895
William H. Heard, AME minister and educator, named minister to Liberia.
February 23, 1915
Death of Robert Smalls (75), Reconstruction congressman, in Beaufort, South Carolina.
February 23, 1925
Louis Stokes, former mayor of Detroit, Michigan, and member of the US House of Representatives, was born in Cleveland, Ohio. Stokes was the first African American elected to the House from Ohio.
February 23, 1965
Constance Baker Motley elected Manhattan Borough president, the highest elective office held by a Black woman in a major American city.
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Post by Common on Feb 25, 2013 9:39:29 GMT -5
February 24, 1811
Bishop of AME Church Daniel Payne born
February 24, 1864
Rebecca Lee Crumpler becomes the first black woman to receive an M.D. degree. She graduated from the New England Female Medical College. Rebecca Lee Crumpler was born in 1833. She worked from 1852-1860 as a nurse in Massachusetts.
February 24, 1940
Former world heavyweight boxing champion Jimmy Ellis was born James Albert Ellis in Louisville, Kentucky. Ellis won the World Boxing Association title after beating Jerry Quarry in April 1968.
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Post by Common on Feb 25, 2013 9:42:09 GMT -5
February 25, 1928
"One-Man Show of Art by Negro, First of Kind Here, Opens Today," read the headline of a front-page article in 'The New York Times' on this day. The article announced the opening of Archibald J. Motley, Jr's show at the New Gallery on Madison Avenue. This was the first time in History that an artist had made the front page of 'The New York Times' and it was the second one-person show by an African-American artist (the first being Henry O. Tanner). African scenes, voodoo dances, and African-Americans at leisure were themes presented by the artist.
February 25, 1948
Martin Luther King ordained as a Baptist minister
February 25, 1964
Muhammad Ali defeated Sonny Liston for world heavyweight boxing championship.
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Post by Common on Feb 26, 2013 9:18:11 GMT -5
February 26, 1870
Wyatt Outlaw, Black leader of the Union League in Alamance County, N.C., Lynched.
February 26, 1920
In 1920, Dr. Carter Godwin Woodson (1875-1950) founded "Associated Publishers." In February 1926, he announced the institution of Negro History Week, which coincided with the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. In 1976, the observance was expanded to "National Afro-American History Month," in honor of the nation's bicentennial. Beginning in 1975, U.S. Presidents have paid tribute to the mission of the association and urged all Americans to celebrate Afro-American History Month.
February 26, 1926
Theodore "Georgia Deacon" Flowers wins middleweight boxing title.
February 26, 1933
Godfrey Cambridge, actor and comedian born in New York.
February 26, 1946
Race riot, Columbia, Tennessee. Two killed and ten wounded.
February 26, 1964
On this day, the Kentucky boxer known to all as Cassius Clay, changed his name to Muhammad Ali as he accepted Islam and rejected Christianity. "I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and in peace...I'm not a Christian anymore."
February 26, 1965
Jimmie Lee Jackson, civil rights activist, died of injuries reportedly inflicted by officers in Marion, Alabama.
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Post by Common on Feb 27, 2013 10:39:32 GMT -5
February 27, 1788
Prince Hall, Revolutionary War Veteran and founder of African Masonic Lodges, *may* have been born on this date. Though his accomplishments are well celebrated, little is known of Prince Hall's early life.
February 27, 1833
On this day in 1833, Maria W. Steward delivered one of the four speeches which confirmed her place in history as the first American-born woman to give public lectures. Stewards lectures focused on encouraging African-Americans to attain education, political rights, and public recognition for their achievements. Her speech on thi day delivered at the African Masonic Hall in Boston, Massachusetts, was titled "On African Rights and Liberty." Sixty-seven years later in Boston on this same day, African-American teacher and poet Angelina Weld Grimke was born. Grimke was a descendant of the famous white abolitionist and feminist sisters Angelina and Sarah Grimke.
February 27, 1869
Congress adopted the 15th constitutional amendment, making it illegal for the US or any single government to deny or abridge the right to vote "on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude."
************************************************ John W. Menard spoke in Congress in defense of his claim to a contested seat in Louisiana's Second Congressional District. Congress decided against both claimants. Congressman James A. Garfield of the examining committee said "it was too early to admit a Negro to the U.S. Congress." Menard was the first Black to make a speech in Congress.
February 27, 1872
Charlotte Ray graduates from Howard Law School. She is the first African American lawyer in the U.S.
February 27, 1902
On this day Marian Anderson, who will become a world-renowned opera singer and the first African American soloist to perform at hte White House , is born in Philadelphia, PA.
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Post by Common on Feb 28, 2013 12:08:28 GMT -5
February 28, 1704
Elias Neau, a Frenchman, opened school for Blacks in New York City.
February 28, 1778
Rhode Island General Assembly in precedent-breaking act authorized the enlistment of slaves.
February 28, 1859
Arkansas legislature required free Blacks to choose between exile and enslavement.
February 28, 1871
Second Enforcement Act gave federal officers and courts control of registration and voting in congressional elections.
February 28, 1879
Southern Blacks fled political and economic exploitation in "Exodus of 1879." Exodus continued for several years. One of the major leaders of the Exodus movement was a former slave, Benjamin ("Pap") Singleton.
February 28, 1942
Race riot, Sojourner Truth Homes, Detroit.
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