February 2001

February 2001 (African American History Month)
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	Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The thinking, dreaming, meditating leader is beautifully pictured in this painting.			1	2	3

				Langston Hughes author b. 1906 1st stamp in U.S. Black Heritage Series Harriet Tubman 1978	Presentation of Our Lord	Mother Mary Lange d. 1882 St. Blase - Blessing of the Throats
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National Day of Prayer for the African American Family Fr. James Goode, OFM Founder
Free U.S. Blacks settle in Liberia 1822	St. Agatha	Arthur Ashe d. 1993	Eubie Blake Baltimore pianist b. 1883	Joseph C. Price established Livingstone College in N.C. 1882	Bernard Harris, 1st Black astronaut to walk in space, 1995 St. Cyril of Alexandria	Wilton D. Gregory installed Bishop Belleville, IL 1994 Terry Steib, SVD ordained Catholic Bishop, St. Louis, MO 1984
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World Day of the Sick
Our Lady of Lourdes Dominic Carmon, SVD ordained Catholic Bishop, New Orleans, LA 1993	Lincoln's Birthday Judge Allyson K. Duncan - 1st black women on a Appellate Court in N.C. 1990	Absalom Jones, Leader of America's first Negro Church, d. 1818	St. Valentine's Day Bishop Raymond Caesar, SVD b. 1932 Eunice, LA	Nat "King" Cole singer and jazz pianist d. 1965	Frederick Douglas elected President of Freedman's Bank and Thrust Co. 1874	Bessie Smith made first recording for Columbia Records 1923
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	Presidents Day
Quakers filed first formal protest against slavery 1688 Myrlie Evers-Williams, 1st Woman Chair NAACP 1995	Curtis J. Guillory ordained Catholic Bishop of Galveston-Houston, TX 1988	Frederick Douglas spokesman, writer, freedom fighter, d. 1895	Julian Bond, President NAACP 1998 Barbara Jordan, State Senator 3-term Congressman, b. Houston, TX 1936	Chair of St. Peter the Apostle Washington's Birthday	W.E.B. Dubois, author and historian, b. 1868 Carl A. Fisher, SSJ ordained Catholic Bishop, Los Angeles, 1987	Rev. Daniel A. Payne, first Black to become a college President, 1811
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			Ash Wednesday
Adrienne Mitchell, 1st African American woman to die in combat, Persian Gulf War 1991	Joshua Johnson, portrait painter, b. Baltimore 1770	Charlotte Ray, first Black woman lawyer graduated Howard University Law School 1872	Martyrs of Alexandria