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Mar. 3rd, in Black History: Annie Lee. artist, born, 1935.

Mar. 2nd, in Black History: In 1955 on a segregated bus in Montgomery AL, 15 year 
                                                                 old Claudette Colvin was arrested because she refused 
                                                                 to give up her seat to a white woman.

Mar. 1st, in Black History: Harry Belafonte, singer, actor, Civil Rights activist, born, 1927.

Feb.28th, in Black History: Actress Hattie McDaniels, became first African-American 
                                                                 to win an Oscar, 1940.

Feb. 27th, in Black History: Marion Anderson, artist, born, 1897.

Feb. 24th, in Black History: Bishop Daniel A. Payne, reformer and educator of the 
                                                                 AME Church, born, 1811.

Feb. 23rd, in Black History: W.E.B. Du Bois, activist and educator, born, 1868.

Feb. 22nd, in Black History: Octavius Cutto, educator and artist, born, 1839.

Feb. 21st, in Black History: Barbara Jordon, politician, born 1936.
          
                                                                 John Lewis, Congressman and Civil Rights leader, 
                                                                 born, 1940

Feb.20yj, in Black History: Sidney Poitier, actor, born, 1927.