Tuesday, February 01, 2005

On This Day

When You Know History, You Know You

February 01, 1960: Four black college students began a sit-in protest at a lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C., where they'd been refused service.

February 01, 1902: Langston Hughes, the American poet and prominent figure of the Harlem Renaissance, was born.

February 01, 1868: Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about Reconstruction (rebuilding after the Civil War).

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