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Marian Anderson, Opera Singer

February 1National Day of Prayer for the African American Family Fr. James Goode, OFM Founder
Langston Hughes author b. 1906 1st stamp in U.S. Black Heritage Series Harriet Tubman 1978
Harriet Tubman, February 1st
February 2
Presentation of Our Lord
Autherine J. Lucy becomes the first African-American student to attend the University of Alabama 1956
February 3
St. Blase - Blessing
of the Throats
Mother Mary Lange d. 1882
February 4Free U.S. Blacks settle in Liberia 1822
February 5
St. Agatha
Clifton W. Wharton, Sr. becomes the first African-American to head an American Embassy in Europe when he is confirmed as ambassador to Romania 1958
Clifton W. Wharton, Sr., February 5th
February 6Arthur Ashe d. 1993
February 7Eubie Blake Baltimore pianist b. 1883
February 8Joseph C. Price established Livingstone College in N.C. 1882
February 9Bernard Harris, 1st Black astronaut to walk in space, 1995 St. Cyril of Alexandria
Bernard Harris, February 9th
February 10Wilton D. Gregory installed Bishop Belleville, IL 1994
Terry Steib, SVD ordained Catholic Bishop, St. Louis, MO 1984
February 11
World Day of Sick
Our Lady of Lourdes
Dominic Carmon, SVD ordained Catholic Bishop, New Orleans, LA 1993
February 12
Lincoln's Birthday
Judge Allyson K. Duncan - 1st black women on a Appellate Court in N.C. 1990
Allyson K. Duncan, February 12th
February 13Absalom Jones, Leader of America's first Negro Church, d. 1818
February 14
Valentine's Day
Bishop Raymond Caesar, SVD b. 1932 Eunice, LA
February 15
President's Day
Nat "King" Cole singer and jazz pianist d. 1965
February 16Frederick Douglas elected President of Freedman's Bank and Thrust Co. 1874
Bessie Smith, February 17th
February 17
Ash Wednesday
Bessie Smith made first recording for Columbia Records 1923
February 18Quakers filed first formal protest against slavery 1688
Myrlie Evers-Williams, 1st Woman Chair NAACP 1995
February 19Curtis J. Guillory ordained Catholic Bishop of Galveston-Houston, TX 1988
February 20Frederick Douglas spokesman, writer, freedom fighter, d. 1895
Julian Bond, February 21st
February 21
First Sunday of Lent
Julian Bond, President NAACP 1998
Barbara Jordan, State Senator 3-term Congressman, b. Houston, TX 1936
February 22
Chair of St. Peter the Apostle
Washington's Birthday
Julius Erving b. Roosevelt, NY 1950
February 23W.E.B. Dubois, author and historian, b. 1868
Carl A. Fisher, SSJ ordained Catholic Bishop, Los Angeles, 1987
Daniel A. Payne, February 24th
Feburary 24Rev. Daniel A. Payne, first Black to become a college President, 1811
February 25Adrienne Mitchell, 1st African American woman to die in combat, Persian Gulf War 1991
February 26Joshua Johnson, portrait painter, b. Baltimore 1770
Richard Wright, February 28th
February 27Charlotte Ray, first Black woman lawyer graduated Howard University Law School 1872
February 28
Second Sunday of Lent
Martyrs of Alexandria
Phyllis Wheatley, poet, d. 1784
Richard Wright's Native Son is published 1940

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