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TODAY IN BLACK HISTORY: Today in Black History Saturday, February 1 1976 Black History Month ~ begins 1926 Carter G Woodson ~ (the Father of Black History) initiates Negro History WeEK 1960 First sit-in ~ Black college students stage a sit-in at a segregated lunch counter in Greensboro, NC, beginning the first of the historic sit-ins of the 1960s AD 1990 Ida B Wells ~ (reformer who first gathered statistical records on lynchings in the US) commemorated on a postage stamp ADD MORE » 1871 Jefferson Franklin Long ~ becomes first Black person to speak in the House of Representatives as a congressman ADD MORE » 1902 Langston Hughes ~ (poet and author) born
Posted on: Sat, 01 Feb 2014 16:07:29 +0000

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