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February 2006 |
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Black History Month
| 1 | WednesdayBorn 1902—Langston Hughes, African-American poetThe Poet's Voice: Langston Hughes and You (LP) |
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| 2 | Thursday2003— Groundhog DayHelpful Animals and Compassionate Humans in Folklore (LP) |
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| 3 | Friday1870—15th Amendment Black suffrage ratifiedAttitudes Toward Emancipation (LP) |
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| 4 | Saturday1822—Free American Blacks Settle LiberiaArt & Life inAfrica Online (W) 1914 US congress approves Burnett anti-immigration law Where I Come From (LP) |
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| 5 | Sunday1917—Mexican Constitution adoptedLANIC (W) |
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| 6 | Monday1936 4th Winter Olympics open in GermanyUS Holocaust Memorial Museum: Winter Games (W) |
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| 7 | Tuesday |
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| 8 | Wednesday1887 Dawes Act passed—Indians living apart from tribe granted citizenshipNative Web (W) |
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| 9 | Thursday1995—Bernard Harris first Black astronaut to take spacewalk, dedicates event to achievements of all African AmericansDr. King's Dream (LP) What Makes a Hero? (LP) |
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| 10 | Friday |
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| 11 | Saturday1945—FDR, Stalin, Churchill, sign Yalta AgreementAvalon Project (W) |
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| 12 | Sunday1809 Born—Abraham Lincoln, 16th US presidentWe Must Not Be Enemies: Lincoln's First Inaugural Address (LP) |
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| 13 | Monday1957 Southern Christian Leadership Conference organizes in New OrleansOrdinary People, Ordinary Places: The Civil Rights Movement (LP) |
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| 14 | Tuesday1817 Born—Frederick Douglass, African-American abolitionistFrom Courage to Freedom: Frederick Douglass's 1845 Autobiography (LP) Perspectives on the Slave Narrative (LP) Valentine's Day A Storybook Romance: Dante's Paolo and Francesca (LP) |
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| 15 | Wednesday1564 Born-Galileo Galilei, astronomerGalileo and the Inevitability of Ideas (LP) |
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| 16 | Thursday2004 President's Day, USI Do Solemnly Swear (LP) Presidential Speeches (W) The American President (W) |
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| 17 | Friday |
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| 18 | Saturday1885 Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn publishedMark Twain & American Humor (LP) Critical Ways of Seeing The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in Context (LP) |
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| 19 | Sunday1674 Peace of Westminster- NYC becomes EnglishWhat They Left Behind (LP) 1919 WEB DuBois organizes first Pan-African Congress, Paris Harlem 1900-1940 (LP) |
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| 20 | Monday1805 Born- Angelina Grimké, abolitionist & lawyerBefore Brother Fought Brother: Women's Lives Before the Civil War (LP) Women and Social Movements in the US, 1775-1940 (W) 1962 John Glenn first American to orbit Earth What Makes a Hero? (ALA) |
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| 21 | Tuesday |
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| 22 | Wednesday1732 Born- George Washington, 1st US PresidentGeorge Washington: The Living Symbol (LP) What Made George Washington a Good Military Leader? (LP) 2005 Mardi Gras The Meaning Behind the Mask (LP) What Masks Reveal (LP) |
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| 23 | Thursday1848 Died—John Quincy Adams 6th US President (1825-1829)The 1828 Campaign of Andrew Jackson: Expansion of the Voting Base (LP) 1868 Born—WEB Du Bois, civil rights writer African-American Soldiers in World War I: The 92nd and 93rd Divisions (LP) |
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| 24 | Friday |
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| 25 | Saturday1868 Andrew Johnson impeached for vioating Tenure of Office ActHarpweek (W) 1987 US Supreme Court upholds affirmative action Oyex, Oyez, Oyez: US vs. Paradise (W) |
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| 26 | Sunday1885 Berlin Act- European powers partition AfricaChinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart: Teaching Through the Novel (LP) Art & Life in Africa Online: Issues in African History (W) |
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| 27 | Monday1807 Born—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, US poetWhy Do We Remember Revere? Paul Revere's Ride in History and Literature (LP) 1902 Born—John Steinbeck, writer Dust Bowl Days (LP) 1933 Nazis burn Reichstag Holocaust and Resistance (LP) |
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| 28 | Tuesday1879 "Exodus of 1879" southern blacks flee political/economic exploitationSodbusters! (LP) New Perspectives on the West (W) |
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