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Black History Today For February 4th (Courtesy of blackfacts.com):

1794- France abolishes slavery. The nation will have a lukewarm commitment to abolition and will, under Napoleon, reestablish slavery in 1802 along with the reinstitution of the “Code noir”, prohibiting blacks, mulattoes and other people of color from entering French colonial territory or intermarrying with whites.

1913- Rosa Parks (born Rosa Louise McCauley), “The Mother Of Freedom Movement & The First Lady Of Civil Rights,”  was born on this day in Tuskegee, AL.

1969- MPLA (People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola), begins armed struggle against Portugal in Angola.

1986- A stamp of Sojourner Truth is issued by the U.S. Postal Service

1996- J.C. (Julius Caesar) Watts, Jr. becomes the first African-American selected to respond to a State Of The Union Address.