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Booker T. Washington

Bessie Coleman

CELEBRATING
BLACK HISTORY MONTH
at Reedley College

FEBRUARY 2010 EVENTS:
Feb. 1 - Information booth
Feb. 3 - Guest Speaker: Terance Frazier
Feb. 8 - Name that Tune
Feb. 10 - Poetry Contest Begins
Feb. 17 - Guest Speaker: Cynthia Sterling
Feb. 18 - Food Sampling
Feb. 22 - Game Show
Feb. 24 - Kappas Stomp Krew
All events begin at noon in the
Student Center, unless otherwise indicated.

Frederick Douglas

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed. - Booker T. Washington

Rosa Parks

George Washington Carver

10 days in Black History That Changed Our Nation:
January 1, 1863: President Abraham Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation
December 6, 1865: The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is approved by the States. It outlaws slavery in America.
April 15, 1947: Jackie Robinson joins the Brooklyn Dodgers. He’s the first black player in Major League Baseball
May 17, 1954: Public schools are desegregated after the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education
December 1, 1955: Rosa Parks is arrested for not giving up her bus seat to a white man. This leads to a yearlong bus boycott and sparks the Civil Rights Movement.
January 12, 1959: Motown Records is founded in Detroit, Michigan, by Berry Gordy Jr. The “Motown sound” makes music by black artists popular with people of all color.
February 1, 1960: The sit-in movement is launched in Greensboro, N.C., when black college students insist on service at a “whites only” lunch counter.
August 28, 1963: The Civil Rights Movement reaches its climax when 250,000 people march on Washington D.C. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his “I Have a Dream,” speech.
January 23, 1977: The miniseries Roots, based on Alex Haley’s novel, begins to air on television. It gives millions of Americans a better understanding of black history.
January 29, 2009: Barack Obama is sworn in as the 44th President of the United States. He is our nation’s first black President.

Coretta Scott King

Student Activities/Associated Student Body
995 N. Reed Ave., Reedley, CA 93654
(559) 638-0397

February 1 - The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which abolished slavery, was adopted by the 38th Congress. Ratification was completed December 6, 1865.
February 2 - Today in 1914, artist William Ellisworth is born in Washington, North Carolina. Educated at Syracuse University, he was a student of Florida artist Augusta Savage.
February 3 - Former Saint Louis Cardinals first baseman Bill White is named president of the National League. He is the first African American to head a major sports league. On February 3, 1903; Jack Johnson became the first Negro Heavyweight Champion, The Negro Baseball League founded in 1920.
February 4 - 1986, a stamp of Sojourner Truth is issued by the U.S. Postal Service.
February 5 - Henry "Home Run King" Aaron, baseball superstar was born in 1934.
February 6 - 1867,The Peabody Fund for Black education in the South was established.
February 7 - Negro History week originated by Carter G. Woodson is observed for the first time in 1926.
February 8 - Figure skater Debi Thomas became the first African American to win the Women's Singles of the U.S.
National Figure Skating Championship competition, was a pre-med student at Stanford University in 1986.
February 9 - In 1979, Baseball Hall of Fame announced that Leroy "Satchel" Paige would be inducted.
February 10 - 1964, After 10 days of debate and voting on 125 amendments, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by a vote of 290-130. The bill prohibited any state or local government or public facility from denying access to anyone because of race or ethnic origin. It further gave the U.S. Attorney General the power to bring school desegregation law suits.
February 11 - 1996, Penn's Baccalaureate Speaker was the Right Reverend Barbara Clementine Harris, a Philadelphian who was the first woman ever to become a bishop in the Anglican Communion.
February 12 - Birthday of William Felton Russell, better known as "Bill" Russel, he was player-coach of the Boston Celtics basketball team in 1968 and 1969. Russell was born in Monroe, Louisiana in 1934.
February 13 - The first Black professional basketball team "The Renaissance" organized 1923.
February 14 - 1936, National Negro Congress organized at Chicago meeting attended by 817 delegates representing more than 500 organizations. Asa Phillip Randolph of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters was elected president of the new organization.
February 15 - 1848, Sarah Roberts barred from white school in Boston. Her father, Benjamin Roberts, filed the first school integration suit on her behalf. Leon Spinks defeated Muhammad Ali for heavyweight boxing championship. Ali regained the title on September 15 and became the person to win the title three times in 1978.
February 16 - 1970, Joe Frazier knocked out Jimmy Ellis in the second round of their New York fight and became the world heavyweight boxing champion.
February 17 - James Nathaniel Brown, 63, Pro Football Hall of Fame Fullback, Born February 17, 1936 in St. Simons Island, GA, Michael Jeffrey Jordon, Basketball player, former minor league baseball player, Born New York, New York, February 17, 1963.
February 18 - 1913, the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority was incorporated at Howard University.
February 19 - Vonetta Flowers became the first black gold medalist in the history of the Winter Olympic Games. She and partner Jull Brakken won the inagural women's two-person bobsled event in 2002 at Salt Lake City, Utah.
February 20 - Death of Frederick Douglass (78), Douglass was the leading Black spokesman for almost fifty years. He was a major abolitionist and a lecturer and editor. Charles Wade Barkley, basketball player, born Leeds, AL, February 20, 1963.
February 21 - today in 1987, African Americans in Tampa, Florida rebelled after an African American man was killed by a white police officer while in custody.
February 22 - Julius Winfield( "Dr.J") Erving, former basketball player, born Roosevelt, NY, Feb 22, 1950. Also on this day DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince win the first rap Grammy for the hit single "Parents Just Don't Understand."
February 23 - Baseball catcher Elston Gene Howard was born in St. Louis, Missouri. In 1965, Howard signed a $70,000 contract with the NY Yankees and became the highest paid player in the history of baseball at the time in 1929.
February 24 - Former world heavyweight boxing champion Jimmy Ellis was born James Albert Ellis in Louisville, Kentucky in 1940. Ellis won the World Boxing Association title after beating Jerry Quarry in April 1968.
February 25 - Muhammad Ali defeated Sonny Liston for world heavyweight boxing championship in 1964. Boxer Mike Tyson becomes the undisputed Heavyweight Champion of the World by defeating challenger Frank Bruno of England in 1989.
February 26 - Theodore "Georgia Deacon" Flowers wins middleweight boxing title in 1926. On this day in 1964., the Kentucky boxer known to all as Cassius Clay, changed his name to Cassius X as he accepted Islam and rejected Christianity. "I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and in peace...I'm not a Christian anymore." According to two biographies, Muhammad Ali by Anthony O. Edmonds and My View from the Corner by Angelo Dundee, Cassius Clay changed his name to Cassius X on the 26th. Elijah Muhammed, a black Muslim leader, announced Cassius X's name was being changed to Muhammed Ali.
February 27 - Figure skater Debi Thomas becomes the first African American to win a medal (bronze) at the winter Olympic Games in 1988.
February 28 - In 1932, Richard Spikes invents the automatic gear shift. Also Musician and entertainer Michael Jackson wins eight Grammy Awards. His album, "Thriller", broke all sales records to-date, and remains one of the top-grossing albums of all time.