Today in Black History x February 1st

1965 - Actress Ruby Dee in Shakespeare Festival
Ruby Dee was the first African American actress to play a major role at the American Shakespeare Festival in Stratford Conn.

1926 Carter G Woodson ~ (the Father of Black History)

initiates "Negro History Week"

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

1902 - Langston Hughes
One of the most famous poets, Langston Hughes was born in the year 1902.