This Day In Black History – February 1
Source: Fred Stein Archive / Getty
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1926
Carter G Woodson ~ (the Father of Black History) initiates “Negro History Week”
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1960
First sit-in ~ Black college students stage a sit-in at a segregated lunch counter in Greensboro, NC, beginning the first of the historic sit-ins of the 1960s
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1990
Ida B Wells ~ (reformer who first gathered statistical records on lynchings in the US) commemorated on a postage stamp
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1871
Jefferson Franklin Long ~ becomes first Black person to speak in the House of Representatives as a congressman
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1902
Langston Hughes ~ (poet and author) born
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