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var f1 = "February 1, 1902: Writer and poet Langston Hughes is born in Joplin, MO. As a journalist, novelist, playwright and poet, Hughes often depicted the everyday American experiences of black citizens. With more than 50 books to his credit, Hughes was probably best known for Jesse B. Simple, a character he created for a series of stories for the Chicago Defender and N.Y. Post in the 1940s.";
var f2 = "February 2, 1897: Inventor Alfred L. Cralle registers patent #576395 for his \"ice cream mold and disher,\" later renamed the ice cream scoop.";
var f3 = "February 3, 1943: Coast Guard mess attendant Charles W. David of the USS Dorchester is killed while heroically rescuing his shipmates after the vessel is crippled by a torpedo off of the coast of Greenland. At a time when segregation was still practiced in the armed forces, David died that day of exposure after plunging repeatedly into the freezing sea to rescue mostly white survivors of the Dorchester. In 1999, The Immortal Chaplains Prize for Humanity was presented in his honor.";
var f4 = "February 4, 1913: Civil rights activist Rosa Parks is born. Her arrest for refusing to yield her seat to a white bus passenger became a landmark event in the struggle for civil rights for African-Americans.";
var f5 = "February 5, 1934: Baseball superstar Hank Aaron is born in Mobile, AL. A class act on and off the field, \"Hammerin' Hank\" has held the record for most career home runs for almost 30 years.";
var f6 = "February 6, 1945: Singer and songwriter Bob Marley is born in Jamaica. In addition to popularizing reggae music, Marley also was a prolific political and social activist during his career.";
var f7 = "February 7, 1926: Negro History Week - the forerunner of Black History Month - is observed for the first time. Originated by Carter G. Woodson, the event is observed in February because February 12 was the birthday of Abraham Lincoln and February 14 was the accepted birthday of Frederick Douglass. Negro History Week was formally expanded to Black History Month in the 1970s.";
var f8 = "February 8, 1986: Television personality Oprah Winfrey becomes the first African-American woman to host a nationally syndicated talk show.";
var f9 = "February 9, 1952: February 9, 1944: Writer and activist Alice Walker is born in Eatonton, GA. With well over 20 books to her credit, Walker also won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Color Purple.";
var f10 = "February 10, 1964: After several days of often acrimonious debate, the US House of Representatives passes the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by a 290-130 margin.";
var f11 = "February 11, 1990: After being held for 27 years as a political prisoner, Nelson Mandela is released from a South African jail.";
var f12 = "February 12, 1909: On the 100th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded.";
var f13 = "February 13, 1920: The Negro National Baseball League - the first successfully organized African-American baseball league - is founded. Although Major League Baseball excluded blacks until 1947, many baseball historians argue that the Negro Leagues produced the best players in the history of the game in pitcher Satchel Paige and slugger Josh Gibson.";
var f14 = "February 14, 1946: Gregory Hines - an accomplished choreographer, dramatic and comic actor, singer, and director - is born. Widely lauded as one of the greatest dancers of the 20th century through his work in tap, the lights of Broadway were dimmed in his honor when he passed away in 2003.";
var f15 = "February 15, 1848: Five-year-old Sarah Roberts is barred from her local Boston primary school because she is black. Her father and other equal rights activists sued the city in what became the first school integration suit. The suit was unsuccessful, and the judicial decision helped lay the foundation for the \"separate but equal\" standard that legalized segregation in the United States until the 1960s.";
var f16 = "February 16, 1970: \"Smokin'\" Joe Frazier of Philadelphia becomes the heavyweight champion of the world when he knocks out Jimmy Ellis in the fifth round.";
var f17 = "February 17, 1963: Basketball superstar Michael Jordan is born in Brooklyn, NY. Shortly after he retires in 1998 following his fifth Most Valuable Player award and sixth NBA championship, ESPN will name him as the greatest athlete of the 20th century.";
var f18 = "February 18, 1931: Novelist Toni Morrison is born in Lorain, Ohio. Her 1987 work Beloved earned the Pulitzer Prize, and in 1993 Morrison became the eighth woman and the first African-American female to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.";
var f19 = "February 19, 1871: Lugina Burns Hope is born in St. Louis. After moving to Atlanta, she became a prominent civil rights activist and community service volunteer. There Hope worked with a group that eventually evolved into the Neighborhood Union, the first female-run, social welfare agency for African-Americans in Atlanta. From 1908 to 1935, as head of its Board of Managers, she oversaw the provision of medical, recreational, employment, and educational services to Atlanta's black neighborhoods.";
var f20 = "February 20, 1867: Ida Gray Nelson, the first black woman to receive a Doctor of Dental Surgery degree, is born in Clarksville, TN.";
var f21 = "February 21, 1965: Activist Malcolm X is assassinated at the age of 39 while giving a speech in Manhattan's Audubon Ballroom.";
var f22 = "February 22, 1881: Composer and bandleader James R. Europe is born in Mobile, AL. A major figure in the transition from ragtime to jazz, Europe also organized the Clef Club, a union of African-American musicians.";
var f23 = "February 23, 1868: Socialist W.E.B. Du Bois is born in Great Barrington, MA. After earning a doctorate from Harvard in 1895, Du Bois became one of the most prominent African-American protest leaders in the first half of the 20th century.";
var f24 = "February 24, 1864: Rebecca Lee becomes the first black woman to receive an M.D. degree.";
var f25 = "February 25, 1903: Albany State University is founded in Albany, GA. Originally named the Albany Bible and Manual Training Institute; it was supported by private and religious organizations with the goal of providing training to black youths in southwest Georgia. It currently is a growing regional institution that offers undergraduate and graduate liberal arts and professional degree programs, and a wide range of outreach programs to the community.";
var f26 = "February 26: The birthday of activist Wallace D. Farad is observed. Farad founded the Nation of Islam movement and established both the Temple of Islam and the University of Islam in Detroit, MI.";
var f27 = "February 27, 1923: Saxophonist Dexter Gordon is born in Los Angeles, CA. A widely lauded soloist, he became known for epic mock-battles with fellow tenor saxophonist Wardell Gray during the late 1940s. Gordon later achieved additional success as an actor on stage and screen, and earned an Academy Award nomination for his role in the 1986 film 'Round Midnight.";
var f28 = "February 28, 1943: Porgy and Bess, the first American folk opera about the lives of black Americans in Charleston, SC, opens on Broadway.";
var f29 = "February 29, 1968: The Kerner Report is made public. Although some civil rights progress had been made during the 1960s, the continuing separation of blacks and whites in most areas was underscored when the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (the Kerner Commission) issued a report that said, \"Our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white, separate and unequal.\"";

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