Black Facts for February 21st

Gossett, Larry (1945-- )
Born on February 21, 1945 in Seattle to parents, Nelmon and Johnnie Carter Gossett, Larry Gossett has been a dedicated public servant for over 40 years. After graduating from Franklin High School, he was a VISTA volunteer in Harlem (1966-1967). Gossett attended the University of Washington, where
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Source: Black Past
Feb
21
1945
Black Rebellion in Tampa, Florida
African Americans in Tampa, Florida rebelled after an African American man was killed by a white police officer while in custody.
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Feb
21
1987
Barbara Jordan dies - Birthday
Barbara Charline Jordan was born February 21, 1936, in Houston, Texas.
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Feb
21
1936
Eva Jessye
Eva Jessye choral director for the first Broadway production of Porgy and Bess died in Ann Arbor, Michigan Feb. 21, 1992.
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Feb
21
1992
Barbara Jordan born
2/21/1936: On this day Barbara Jordan, who will be the first African American woman elected to the House of Representatives, is born
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Feb
21
1936
Nina Simone born
Nina Simone (Eunice Waymon), 66, singer (I Love You Porgy, Trouble in Mind) born Tryon, NC, Feb 21, 19933.
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Feb
21
1993
North Carolina Legislature adjourns
North Carolina Legislature, dominated by Black Republicans and white Populists, adjourned for the day to mark the death of Frederick Douglass.
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Feb
21
1895
(1895) John H. Smyth, “The African in Africa and the African in America”
Virginia-born John Henry Smyth, late 19th Century lawyer and diplomat, had spent nearly five years as the U.S. Minister to Liberia, representing both President Rutherford B. Hayes and Chester A. Arthur.  He was given an L.L. D. degree by Liberia College and appointed Knight Commander of the Liberia
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Source: Black Past
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Feb
21
1883
Malcolm X
Malcolm X was a civil rights leader, spokesman for black nationalism and leader of the Nation of Islam, and had a major influence on the political and social thinking of African Americans. His birth name was Malcolm Little and he was born on May 19, 1925 in Omaha, Nebraska to Louise and Earl
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Source: Black History Resources
Feb
21
1965
Jordan, Barbara (1936-1996) - Birthday
Barbara Charline Jordan was born in Houston Texas’s Fifth Ward on February 21, 1936.
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Source: Black Past
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Feb
21
1936
Malcolm X (39) assassinated in Audubon Ballroom at
Malcolm X (39) assassinated in Audubon Ballroom at a rally of his organization. Three Blacks were later convicted of the crime and sentenced to life imprisonment.
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Feb
21
1965
Edward R. S. Canby
...in which about 80 warriors and their families retreated to the California Lava Beds, a land of complex ravines and caves; there they mounted an effective resistance. After the murder of Brig. Gen. Edward Canby, who headed a peace commission in April 1873, U.S. troops prosecuted the war more
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Source: Brittanica
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Feb
21
1862
Nina Simone - Birthday
Nina Simone (/ˈ n iː n ə s ɪ ˈ m oʊ n/; born Eunice Kathleen Waymon; February 21, 1933 – April 21, 2003) was an American singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger, and activist in the Civil Rights Movement.
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Source: AA Studies Research Guide
Feb
21
1933
Otis Boykin patents the Electrical Resistor
Otis Boykin, Inventor, patented the Electrical Resistor. U.S. 2,972,726 He is responsible for inventing the electrical device used in all guided missiles and IBM computers, plus 26 other electronic devices including a control unit for an artificial heart stimulator (pacemaker). He began his career
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Feb
21
1961
Lewis, John R. (1940- )
John Lewis was born in Troy, Alabama on February 21, 1940.  In 1961 he received a B.A. from American Baptist Theological Seminary in Nashville, Tennessee.  In 1967 he received an additional B.A. from Fisk University located in
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Source: Black Past
Feb
21
1940
Robert Mugabe - Birthday
Robert Mugabe , in full Robert Gabriel Mugabe (born February 21, 1924, Kutama, Southern Rhodesia [now Zimbabwe]), the first prime minister (1980–87) of the reconstituted state of Zimbabwe, formerly Rhodesia.
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Source: Brittanica
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Feb
21
1924
Malcolm X
Malcolm X , original name Malcolm Little, Muslim name el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz (born May 19, 1925, Omaha, Nebraska, U.S.—died February 21, 1965, New York, New York), African American leader and prominent figure in the Nation of Islam who articulated concepts of race pride and black nationalism in
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Source: Brittanica
Feb
21
1965
Fred Jones - Death
Jones died on February 21, 1961 and was posthumously awarded the National Medal of Technology, one of the greatest honors an inventor could receive.
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Source: Black History Resources
Feb
21
1961
John Lewis, founder and chairman of SNCC, born
John Lewis, founder and chairman of SNCC, born
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Feb
21
1940
Thelonious Monk, jazz great born
Thelonious Sphere Monk (1917--82) Jazz musician; born in Rocky Mount, N.C. He was raised in New York
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Feb
21
1917
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