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Black history month Feb 23

Thomas Mundy Peterson was born on 6 October 1824 and died on 4 February 1904. Peterson has been claimed to be the first African American to vote in an election under the just-enacted provisions of the 15th Amendment to the United States Constitution.

Black History Month Feb 21
Alice Allison Dunnigan was the first African-American female White House correspondent. She was also the first Black female member of the Senate and House of Representatives press galleries.

Black History Month Feb 19

Dorothy Height has been called the matriarch of the Civil Rights Movement and often worked behind the scenes.

Black history month Feb 18
Mae Jemison isn’t just the first African American woman who orbited into space on the shuttle Endeavour. She's also a physician, teacher, and Peace Corps volunteer; she founded the Jemison Group that works toward helping women of color get more involved in tech/eng/math.

Black history month Feb 17

Alice Walker, was born on February 9, 1944. Her creative efforts have had a significant influence on literature and social consciousness. Walker is well known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “The Color Purple,” which tackles issues of race, gender, and spirituality.

Black History Month, February 16

Harriet Tubman was an American abolitionist and social activist. Born into slavery, Tubman escaped and subsequently made some 13 missions to rescue approximately 70 slaves, using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad

Black History Month Feb 15
Alain LeRoy Locke was an American philosopher, educator and writer. After obtaining an undergraduate degree from Harvard University, Locke became the first Black Rhodes Scholar. He later returned to the U.S. to complete his doctoral studies at Harvard

Black history month Feb 14 LOVE IS LOVE

Audre Lorde

Lorde, a self-described “Black, lesbian, feminist, mother, poet, warrior," made lasting contributions in the fields of feminist theory, critical race studies and queer theory through her pedagogy and writing.

Madam C.J. Walker - Products, Daughter & Hair Products Madam C.J. Walker created specialized hair products for African American hair care and was one of the first American women to become a self-made millionaire.

Black History Month Feb 13
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Madam C.J. Walker

Madam C.J. Walker created specialized hair products for African American hair care and was one of the first American women to become a self-made millionaire.

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Black history month Feb 12
Wangari Maathai became the first Black woman to win the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize for her environmental work in Kenya. She was also the first woman in East and Central Africa to earn a doctorate degree.

Alvin Ailey Alvin Ailey (1931–1989) was an African American choreographer and activist who founded the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and the Ailey School in New York City.

Black History Month Feb 11

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Alvin Ailey (1931–1989) was an African American choreographer and activist who founded the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and the Ailey School in New York City

Black history month Feb 10
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Bayard Rustin Bayard Rustin (1912–1987) was a human rights activist known for his work during the Civil Rights Movement

Black History Month Feb 9
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Bayard Rustin (1912–1987) was a human rights activist known for his work during the Civil Rights Movement

Rustin was a key organizer of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom and was one of Martin Luther King Jr.’s closest advisors

Black History Month Feb 8 Sojourner Truth was born Isabella Baumfree in New York and escaped slavery in her late twenties.
Like Frederick Douglass, Truth became a powerful orator who traveled the country urging an end to slavery. she accomplished all that without ever learning to read or write.

Frederick Douglass ‑ Narrative, Quotes & Facts | HISTORY Frederick Douglass was an escaped slave who became a prominent activist, author and public speaker. He became a leader in the abolitionist movement, which sought to end the practice of slavery, before...

Black History Month Feb 6

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Frederick Douglass was a formerly enslaved man who became a prominent activist, author and public speaker. He became a leader in the abolitionist movement, and he continued to push for equality and human rights until his death in 1895.

Historical Profile: Jane Matilda Bolin ’31 Jane Matilda Bolin made history as the first Black female judge in the United States and the first Black woman to graduate from Yale Law School.

Black History Month Feb 5

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Jane Matilda Bolin made history as the first Black female judge in the United States and the first Black woman to graduate from Yale Law School

Black History Month Feb 4
Shirley Chisholm
In the late '60s, she became the first Black woman elected to Congress….in 1972, she became the first woman to run for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination. Her campaign slogan "Unbought and unbossed" rings even louder today.

The newest representative from Maryland came out swinging:

Rep. Elfreth: "Elon Musk has called USAID a criminal organization, and yet, he is the one who came in the dark of night in a takeover that is illegal."

FIRST: USAID

NEXT: Dept. of Education

THEN: Your Social Security benefits? Your health insurance? Your kids' health insurance?

Everything is on the table and Trump/Musk don't care who gets hurt.

We will not sit by while this happens. We will put up a fight.

Musk’s wrecking crew—Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran—need to be indicted for their illegal and un-American break-in of USAID.

Musk, Trump Prosecutor Targeting People Who Divulge Identities of DOGE Staff - Rolling Stone

Claudette Colvin: Biography, Quotes, Facts & Civil Rights Claudette Colvin is an activist who was a pioneer in the civil rights movement in Alabama during the 1950s. She refused to give up her seat on a bus months before Rosa Parks' more famous protest.

Black History Month Feb 3
Claudette Colvin is an activist who was a pioneer in the civil rights movement in Alabama during the 1950s. She refused to give up her seat on a bus months before Rosa Parks' more famous protest
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Biography: Ida B. Wells-Barnett Ida B. Wells-Barnett was a prominent journalist, suffragist, activist, and researcher.

Black history month Feb 2
Celebrating Ida B Wells

In 1862, Ida B. Wells-Barnett was born in Holly Springs, Mississippi.

Wells-Barnett was a journalist, anti-lynching activist, women’s suffragette, and an early civil rights movement leader.

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Biography: Ruby Bridges At the tender age of six, Ruby Bridges advanced the cause of civil rights in November 1960 when she became the first African American student to integrate an elementary school in the South.

Black history Feb 1

Ruby Bridges has always been a civil rights advocate, with her experience as the first Black child to enter an all-white school in the South making her a household name.

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