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Today in Black History…Feb 12

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1865: Henry Highland Garnet, first Black to speak in the Capitol, delivered memorial sermon on the abolition of slavery at services in the House of Representatives.

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1900: For a Lincoln birthday celebration, James Weldon Johnson writes the lyrics for "Lift Every Voice and Sing."

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1909: Founded in 1909 in New York City by a group of black and white citizens committed to social justice, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).

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1930: In Tuskegee, Alabama, the Rosenwald Fund made grants to the Alabama State Board of Health to help meet the cost of a study of syphilis in African American men living in rural Georgia and Alabama.



1934: Birthday of William Felton Russell, better known as "Bill" Russell, he was player-coach of the Boston Celtics basketball team in 1968 and 1969. Russell was born in Monroe, Louisiana.

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1948: First Lt. Nancy C. Leftenant became the first Black accepted in the regular army nursing corps.

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1952: Congressional Medal of Honor awarded posthumously to Sgt. Cornelius H. Charlton for heroism in Korea.
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1983: Pianist Eubie Blake died in Brooklyn, NY 5 days after his 100th birthday.

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You can't know where you're going if you don't know where you've been!

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Brought to you by the Sorors of the Iota Zeta Sigma Alumnae Chapter of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc., North Atlanta, GA

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