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(Photo By Flickr User Rossano (aka Bud Care)) Black History Today for February 29th:1940- Hattie McDaniel known for her supporting roles became the first African-American to win the Oscar Award f...

(Photo By Flickr User jinnrouge) Black History Weekend Today for February 27th & 28th:February 27th:1833- Maria W. Steward delivered one of the four speeches which confirmed her place in hist...

(Photo By Flickr User Canadian Film Centre) Black History Today for February 19th:1864- Knights of Pythias established. Confederate troops defeated three Black and six white regiments at Battle o...

(Photo By Flickr User mjtmall) Black History Today for February 18th:1688- First formal protest against slavery by organized white body in English America made by Germantown (Pa.) Quakers at mont...

(Photo By Flickr User jamielondonboy) The Home Builders Association of Greater Peoria, present the 2016 Official Spring Home Show at the Peoria Civic Center!More than 250 companies occupying 450 ...

(Photo By Flickr User Erik Drost) Black History Today for February 16th:1870- Congress passed resolution readmitting Mississippi on condition that it would never change its constitution to disenf...

 (Photo By Flickr User randy stewart)  Black History Today for February 16th:1857- Frederick Douglass elected President of Freedman Bank and Trust.1923- Bessie Smith makes her first rec...

 (Photo By Flickr User Patrick Q) We’re now officially in the middle of the month of February and still rolling along with more African-American History Artifacts!Let’s take a tr...

(Photo By Flickr User Scott Beale) WVEL Black History Weekend Today for February 13th & February 14:February 13th:1635- America’s first public school, the Boston Latin School, opened in...

 (Photo By Flickr User Bob n Renee) Black History Today for February 12th:1793- First fugitive slave law enacted by Congress.1865- Henry Highland Garnet was the first Black to speak in the C...