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FEBRUARY 20, 2002
1869
Tennessee Governor W.C. Brownlow declared martial law in nine counties in Ku Klux Klan crisis.
1895
Death of Frederick Douglass (78), Anacostia Heights, District of Columbia. Douglass was the leading Black spokesman for almost fifty years. He was a major abolitionist and a lecturer and editor.
1900
J.F. Bickering patents airship invention
1927
On this day Sidney Poitier, who will be the first African American
to win an Academy Award in a starring role, is born in Miami, Fl. (Can you name the movie he received the Academy Award for?)
1931
Army Lt. Gen. Emmett Paige, Jr. born in Jacksonville, Florida
1936
Death of John Hope (67), president, Atlanta University.
1936
Jazz singer, actress, Nancy Wilson was born in Chillicothe, Ohio
1963
Charles Wade Barkley, 39, basketball player, born Leeds, AL, February 20, 1963
1968
State troopers used tear gas to stop demonstrations at Alcorn A&M College.
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I am a woman, I make mistakes. I make them often. God has given me a talent and that's it. ~ Jill Scott
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