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Born 1902—Langston Hughes, African-American poet
The Poet's Voice: Langston Hughes and You (LP)
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2003— Groundhog Day
Helpful Animals and Compassionate Humans in Folklore (LP)
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1870—15th Amendment Black suffrage ratified
Attitudes Toward Emancipation (LP)
1870—15th Amendment Black suffrage ratified
Attitudes Toward Emancipation (LP)
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1822—Free American Blacks Settle Liberia
Art & Life inAfrica Online (W)
1914 US congress approves Burnett anti-immigration law
Where I Come From (LP)
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1917—Mexican Constitution adopted
LANIC (W)
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1936 4th Winter Olympics open in Germany
US Holocaust Memorial Museum: Winter Games (W)
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1887 Dawes Act passed—Indians living apart from tribe granted citizenship
Native Web (W)
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1995—Bernard Harris first Black astronaut to take spacewalk, dedicates event to achievements of all African Americans
Dr. King's Dream (LP)
What Makes a Hero? (LP)
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1945—FDR, Stalin, Churchill, sign Yalta Agreement
Avalon Project (W)
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1809 Born—Abraham Lincoln, 16th US president
We Must Not Be Enemies: Lincoln's First Inaugural Address (LP)
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1957 Southern Christian Leadership Conference organizes in New Orleans
Ordinary People, Ordinary Places: The Civil Rights Movement (LP)
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1817 Born—Frederick Douglass, African-American abolitionist
Perspectives on the Slave Narrative (LP)
Valentine's Day
A Storybook Romance: Dante's Paolo and Francesca (LP)
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1564 Born-Galileo Galilei, astronomer
Galileo and the Inevitability of Ideas (LP)
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2004 President's Day, US
I Do Solemnly Swear (LP)
Presidential
Speeches (W)
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1885 Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn published
Mark Twain & American Humor (LP)
Critical Ways of Seeing The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in Context (LP)
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1674 Peace of Westminster- NYC becomes English
What They Left Behind (LP)
1919 WEB DuBois organizes first Pan-African Congress, Paris
Harlem 1900-1940 (W)
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1805 Born- Angelina Grimké, abolitionist & lawyer
Before 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? (LP)
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1732 Born- George Washington, 1st US President
George Washington: The Living Symbol (LP)
What Made George Washington a Good Military Leader? (LP)
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1848 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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2004 Mardi Gras
The Meaning Behind the Mask (LP)
What Masks Reveal (LP)
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1868 Andrew Johnson impeached for vioating Tenure of Office Act
Harpweek (W)
1987 US Supreme Court upholds affirmative action
Oyex, Oyez, Oyez: US vs. Paradise (W)
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1885 Berlin Act- European powers partition Africa
Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart: Teaching Through the Novel (LP)
Art & Life in Africa Online: Issues in African History (W)
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1807 Born—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, US poet
Why 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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1879 "Exodus of 1879" southern blacks flee political/economic exploitation
Sodbusters!(LP)
New Perspectives on the West (W)
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1692—Sarah Good & Tituba, an African-American servant, accused of witchcraft, Salem, MA.
Dramatizing History in Arthur Miller's The Crucible (LP)
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