Woolworth lunch-counter sit-in in Greensboro, NC - Feb. 1, 1960üFebruary 1, 2007üü9:00 AMü10:00 AMüüüNot PrivateýAbraham Lincoln's approval of the 13th amendment abolishing slavery - Feb. 1, 1865üFebruary 1, 2007üü8:00 AMü9:00 AMüüüNot PrivateýAlfred Cralle, African-American inventor, patents the ice cream scooper - Feb. 2, 1897üFebruary 2, 2007üü8:00 AMü9:00 AMüüüNot PrivateýRatification of the 15th amendment - Feb. 3, 1870üFebruary 3, 2007üü8:00 AMü9:00 AMüüüNot PrivateýRosa Parks born - Feb. 4, 1913üFebruary 4, 2007üü8:00 AMü9:00 AMüüüNot PrivateýBaseball great Hank Aaron born - Feb. 5, 1934üFebruary 5, 2007üü8:00 AMü9:00 AMüüüNot PrivateýFirst organized emigration of blacks back to Africa leaves New York for Sierra Leone - Feb. 6, 1820üFebruary 6, 2007üü8:00 AMü9:00 AMüüüNot PrivateýCarter Woodson organizes the first Negro History Week, which later grows into Black American History Month - Feb. 7, 1926üFebruary 7, 2007üü8:00 AMü9:00 AMüüüNot PrivateýThree students at South Carolina State University are killed during segregation protests - Feb. 8, 1968üFebruary 8, 2007üü8:00 AMü9:00 AMüüüNot PrivateýDr. Bernard Harris is the first African American to take a spacewalk - Feb. 9, 1995üFebruary 9, 2007üü8:00 AMü9:00 AMüüüNot PrivateýRon Brown elected chairperson of the Democratic National Committee - Feb. 10, 1989üFebruary 10, 2007üü8:00 AMü9:00 AMüüüNot PrivateýNelson Mandela's release from prison - Feb. 11, 1990üFebruary 11, 2007üü8:00 AMü9:00 AMüüüNot PrivateýNAACP founded - Feb. 12, 1909üFebruary 12, 2007üü9:00 AMü10:00 AMüüüNot PrivateýLincoln's birthday - Feb. 12, 1809üFebruary 12, 2007üü8:00 AMü9:00 AMüüüNot PrivateýJoseph Searles becomes the first African American member of the New York Stock Exchange - Feb. 13, 1970üFebruary 13, 2007üü8:00 AMü9:00 AMüüüNot PrivateýFrederick Douglass's presumed birthday - Feb. 14, 1817 üFebruary 14, 2007üü8:00 AMü9:00 AMüüüNot PrivateýSarah Roberts tries to enroll in a white school in Boston and is refused; her father goes on to file the first school integration lawsuit - Feb. 15, 1848üFebruary 15, 2007üü8:00 AMü9:00 AMüüüNot PrivateýFrederick Douglass elected President of Freeman Bank and Trust - Feb. 16, 1857üFebruary 16, 2007üü8:00 AMü9:00 AMüüüNot PrivateýBasketball player Michael Jordan born - Feb. 17, 1963üFebruary 17, 2007üü8:00 AMü9:00 AMüüüNot PrivateýWriter Toni Morrison born - Feb. 18, 1931üFebruary 18, 2007üü8:00 AMü9:00 AMüüüNot PrivateýFirst Pan-African Congress, organized by W.E.B. DuBois, held in Paris - Feb. 19, 1919üFebruary 19, 2007üü8:00 AMü9:00 AMüüüNot PrivateýAbolitionist Frederick Douglass dies - Feb. 20, 1895üFebruary 20, 2007üü8:00 AMü9:00 AMüüüNot PrivateýMalcolm X assassinated - Feb. 21, 1965üFebruary 21, 2007üü8:00 AMü9:00 AMüüüNot PrivateýMontgomery bus boycott arrests - Feb. 22, 1956üFebruary 22, 2007üü8:00 AMü9:00 AMüüüNot PrivateýW.E.B. DuBois born - Feb. 23, 1868üFebruary 23, 2007üü8:00 AMü9:00 AMüüüNot PrivateýDr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler becomes the first African American woman to receive an MD degree - Feb. 24, 1864üFebruary 24, 2007üü8:00 AMü9:00 AMüüüNot PrivateýHiram Revels becomes the first African American Senator - Feb. 25, 1870üFebruary 25, 2007üü8:00 AMü9:00 AMüüüNot PrivateýSinger Fats Domino born - Feb. 26, 1928üFebruary 26, 2007üü8:00 AMü9:00 AMüüüNot PrivateýMarian Anderson, world-renowned opera singer, is born - Feb. 27, 1897üFebruary 27, 2007üü8:00 AMü9:00 AMüüüNot PrivateýRichard Spikes invents the automatic gear shift - Feb. 28, 1932üFebruary 28, 2007üü8:00 AMü9:00 AMüüüNot Privateý