March 04, 2023
SoulTic Magazine’s Black History Calendar / Black History Month Information pt . 3 Internet Vol – 3
February – 1 ( 1960) Civil rights movement; Greensboro, NC . College students began a sit – in at a segregated Woolworths lunch counter.
February – 2 (1915 ) Ernest E . Just . Scientist receives the first NAACP Spingarn Medal.
February – 3 ( 1989) Bill White is named the first African American/ Black President of Baseball’s National League.
February – 4 ( 1913) Rosa Parks Civil Rights Activist is born.
February – 5 ( 1884 ) Willie Johnson African American / Black inventor is issued patent for invention of the egg beater.
February – 6 ( 1993 ) Arthur Ashe African American / Black tennis great and human rights activist dies.
February – 7 ( 1883 ) Eubie Blake African American / Black ragtime composer and performer is born.
February – 8 ( 1986 ) Debi Thomas becomes first African American / Black to win the women’s Senior Singles US Figure Skating Championship.
February – 9 ( 1906 ) Paul Laurence Black dialect poet Dies.
February – 10 ( 1989) Ron Brown is elected the first African American chair person Democratic Party.
February – 11 ( 1990 ) Nelson Mandela ANC Leader and Human Right Activist is released from South African prison after 27 years of confinement.
February – 12 ( 1909 ) NAACP Founded.
February – 13 ( 1920 ) National Negro Baseball League is organized.
February – 14 ( 1817 ) Frederick Douglass Abolitionist Leader was born.
February – 15 ( 1965 ) Nat King Cole Jazz Legend dies.
February – 16 ( 1957 ) Levar Burton renowned actor, is born.
February – 17 ( 1942 ) Huey P . Newton Black panther Panther Party Leader is born.
February – 18 (1931 ) Toni Morrison first African American to win Nobel Prize in Literature, was born.
February – 19 ( 1999 ) Henry O Flipper , the first black West Point graduate gets pardon from then president Bill Clinton reversing his racially motivated discharge.
February – 20 ( 1927 ) Sidney Poitier first African American man to win an Academy Award is born.
February – 21 ( 1965 ) Malcolm X civil rights Leader was assassinated.
February – 22 ( 1911 ) Frances Ellen Watkins Renowned author, abolitionist and suffragist dies.
February – 23 ( 1868 ) W. E. B. DuBois is born.
February – 24 ( 1811 ) Daniel Alexander Payne the first African American President of an American College is born.
February – 25 ( 1870 ) Hiram Rhoades Revels the first African American United States Senator is sworn in.
February – 26 ( 1869 ) The Fifteenth Amendment is passed by Congress.
February – 27 ( 1872 ) Charlotte Ray , the first African American woman lawyer graduates from Howard University.
February – 28 ( 1932 ) Richard Spikes is issued patent for automatic gear shift.
