Negro Historical Calendar 1922 An Encyclopedia of Negro Progress and Achievements February in Negro History February 1: death of Bishop Alexander Walters of the AME Zion Church 1917. Up to 1910 and more than 2000 patents have been granted to Negroes. February 2: Frederick Douglass noted anti-slavery agitator and journalists, died, 1895. Georgia ratified the 13th amendment, 1870. February 3: West Virginia abolishes slavery 1865. During the revolution one third of the 600 man by whom Fort Cornwallis was garrisoned at the siege of Augusta was Negroes. February 4: Lewis Hayden was possibly the only officeholder before the war. In 1859 he was a messenger to the Massachusetts Secretary of State, which position he held until his death, 1889. February 5: Gussie L Davis, at one time a writer of popular music, is the author of The Lighthouse by the Sea. The Baggage Cart Ahead. Etc. February 6: two colored women have achieved distinction as sculptors. The first, Edmodla Lewis, who attracted notice by exhibiting in 1865 in Boston a bust of Robert Gould Shaw. She was born in 1845. February 7: the Confederate Senate (Va.) Defeats measures for raising an army of 200,000 Negroes, 1865. Convention of Negro newspaperman held in Nashville Tennessee, 1917. February 8: Formation of the African Ecclesiastical Society, 1820. The national Negro business league organized in Boston in 1910. February 9: death of Paul Lawrence Dunbar, the noted Negro poet and writer, 1906. There are now about 118 hospitals and nurse training schools, operated by and for Negroes.(1922). February 10: Phyllis Wheatley, Negro poetess, one of the first women, white or black, to attain literary distinction in this country. 1776. February 11: In 1860 there was in the South 244 counties in which half or more than half of the population would Negroes. 50 years later, 1910. There were 266 such counties or a gain of 7.8% February 12: Abraham Lincoln born, 1809. Annual convention Lincoln League. February 13: First African Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia organized. The first solid Presbyterian in America, founded Archibald Alexander, 1807. February 14: The chair of the Senate is for the first time occupied by a colored for Blanche J Bruce of Mississippi 1870. February 15: Public square in Boston dedicated to Frederick Douglass, 1917, noted Negro abolitionists and leader of the race in Civil War days. February 16: Official record and facts connected operations of college hoops printed in the Congressional record, 1919. February 17: Tri-Council of bishops of the AME Zion Church, and colored Methodist Episcopal Church met to consider organic union. February 18: Lenuel Haynes, first Congregational minister; 1875, he became pastor of a white congregation at Torrington Connecticut. February 19: First meeting of pan African Congress, Paris 1919. The Knights of the Pythias of E. A. A. N. and S. A. colored, was organized in Washington DC, 1864. February 20: Ira Aldridge born 1810. At Belair, MD. He was the most famous of Negro actors. He has had few equal in the part of Othello, the Moor. He died at Lodz, in 1867. February 21: Joseph J. Roberts, an American-born Negro, the first man of color to rule in Liberia.. Died in 1876. February 22: Organization of the Freedmens Relief Association, 1862. A Negro was catcher for the Toledo Northwest baseball league in 1883. February 23: W. E. B. Dubois, editor of crisis, the national Negro magazine, was born at Great Barrington Massachusetts., 1868. February 24: Recognition of the war services of the colored soldiers, Symphony Hall, Boston, 1919. Daniel A. Payne, who established Union Seminary near Columbus, Ohio, was born in 1811. February 25: Hiram R . Revels of Mississippi, the first colored Sen., takes the required oath, 1870. February 26: Both houses of Congress passed the 15th amendment to the Constitution, 1869. Death of Alexander Dumas, 1806. February 27: John Shavis, commissioned by the Presbyterian General Assembly as a ministry of Negroes. He was the first Negro of this creed to prepared for Christian leadership, 1801 February 28: George Washington, at Cambridge, Massachusetts, acknowledges verse written by Phyllis Wheatley, the Negro poetess, 1876. The United States by treaty assumes control of Haitis finances and police, 1870.
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