PalmSG Database00RVBD*T:\for karen\1-temp transfer\AAH-Feb07.dbaBusinessBusinessPersonalPersonal6@ABC*@ABAEERAbraham Lincoln's approval of the 13th amendment abolishing slavery - Feb. 1, 1865@ABAE*E?Woolworth lunch-counter sit-in in Greensboro, NC - Feb. 1, 19606@ABA`EnEVAlfred Cralle, African-American inventor, patents the ice cream scooper - Feb. 2, 1897Q@ABAEE1Ratification of the 15th amendment - Feb. 3, 1870l@ABAEERosa Parks born - Feb. 4, 1913@ABATEbE-Baseball great Hank Aaron born - Feb. 5, 1934@ABAEEcFirst organized emigration of blacks back to Africa leaves New York for Sierra Leone - Feb. 6, 1820@ABAEEyCarter Woodson organizes the first Negro History Week, which later grows into Black American History Month - Feb. 7, 1926 @ABAIEWEgThree students at South Carolina State University are killed during segregation protests - Feb. 8, 1968  @ABAEESDr. Bernard Harris is the first African American to take a spacewalk - Feb. 9, 1995  @ABAEERRon Brown elected chairperson of the Democratic National Committee - Feb. 10, 1989  )@ABA=EKE4Nelson Mandela's release from prison - Feb. 11, 1990  D@ABAEE"Lincoln's birthday - Feb. 12, 1809 _@ABAE ENAACP founded - Feb. 12, 1909z@ABAEEgJoseph Searles becomes the first African American member of the New York Stock Exchange - Feb. 13, 1970@ABA2E@E7Frederick Douglass's presumed birthday - Feb. 14, 1817 @ABAEESarah Roberts tries to enroll in a white school in Boston and is refused; her father goes on to file the first school integration lawsuit - Feb. 15, 1848@ABAEENFrederick Douglass elected President of Freeman Bank and Trust - Feb. 16, 1857@ABA&E4E5Basketball player Michael Jordan born - Feb. 17, 1963@ABAxEE)Writer Toni Morrison born - Feb. 18, 1931@ABAEEUFirst Pan-African Congress, organized by W.E.B. DuBois, held in Paris - Feb. 19, 19197@ABAE)E4Abolitionist Frederick Douglass dies - Feb. 20, 1895R@ABAlEzE&Malcolm X assassinated - Feb. 21, 1965m@ABAEE.Montgomery bus boycott arrests - Feb. 22, 1956@ABAEE"W.E.B. DuBois born - Feb. 23, 1868@ABAaEoEiDr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler becomes the first African American woman to receive an MD degree - Feb. 24, 1864@ABAEEGHiram Revels becomes the first African American Senator - Feb. 25, 1870@ABAEE'Singer Fats Domino born - Feb. 26, 1928@ABAUEcEEMarian Anderson, world-renowned opera singer, is born - Feb. 27, 1897@ABAEE?Richard Spikes invents the automatic gear shift - Feb. 28, 1932