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February 1 - The first of Black History Month
1810 - Charles Lenox Remond is born in Salem, Massachusetts
to free parents. He will become one of the most prominent of the
African American abolitionist crusaders.
1810 - The first insurance company managed by African
Americans, the American Insurance Company of Philadelphia, is
established.
1833 - Henry McNeal Turner is born. He will become one of the
first Bishops in the African American Episcopal Church. He will also
be an army chaplain, political organizer, magazine editor, and college
chancellor.
1865 - John S. Rock becomes the first African American attorney
allowed to practice before the United States Supreme Court. Due to
his poor health, he never actually argued a case before the court,
succumbing to tuberculosis at the age of 41.
1870 - Jonathan Jasper Wright is elected to the South Carolina
Supreme Court. He is the first African American to hold a
major judicial position.
1871 - Jefferson Franklin Long, Republican congressman from
Georgia, makes the first speech by an African American on the floor of
Congress. His text is to oppose leniency to former Confederates.
1902 - Langston Hughes is born in Joplin, Missouri. He will be
known as one of the most prolific American poets of the 0th century
and a leading voice of the Harlem Renaissance. In addition to his
poetry, Hughes will achieve success as an anthologist and juvenile
author, write plays and librettos, ound theater groups, and be a
widely read columnist and humorist.
1938 - Sherman Hemsley is born in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania. He will become an actor and will known for his roles in
the TV shows "All in the Family," "The Jeffersons," and "Amen."
1948 - James Johnson, Jr. is born in Buffalo, New York. He
will become a singer, songwriter, producer, and musician working under
the name "Rick James." He will be best known for his recording of
"Super Freak" and produce Teena Marie, the gold-certified Mary Jane
Girls, Eddie Murphy, and others.
1957 - P.H. Young becomes the first African American pilot,
flying on an United States scheduled passenger airline.
1960 - Four African American college students from North
Carolina A&T College in Greensboro, North Carolina sit at a
"whites-only" Woolworth's lunch counter and refuse to leave when
denied service, beginning a sit-in protest.
1963 - Nyasaland (now Malawi) becomes a self-governing nation.
1965 - More than seven hundred demonstrators, including Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr., are arrested in Selma, Alabama.
1965 - Ruby Dee becomes the first African American thespian to
play a major role at the American Shakespeare Festival in Stratford,
Connecticut.
1978 - The first stamp of the United States Postal Service's
Black
Heritage USA series honors Harriet Tubman, famed abolitionist and
"conductor" on the Underground Railroad.
1982 - The nations of Senegal & Gambia form a loose
confederation named Senegambia.
1991 - President F.W. de Klerk of South Africa, states that he
will
repeal all apartheid laws.
1992 - Barry Bonds signs baseball's highest single year
contract to date ($4.7 million).
1997 - BET Holdings and Encore Media Corp. launch BET Movie/Starz,
the first 24 hour African American movie channel.
2003 - Lt. Colonel Michael P. Anderson, NASA astronaut, joins
the ancestors at the age of 43, when the Space Shuttle Columbia
explodes during re-entry.
2003 - Ramon "Mongo" Santamaria, joins the ancestors in Miami,
Florida from stroke complications at the age of 85. He had been
considered one of the most influential percussionists of his
generation.
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