February 20, 1934 – Four Saints in Three Acts, by Virgil Thompson and Gertrude Stein, premiered as the first black-performed opera on Broadway.
February 21, 1965 – Civil Rights activist Malcolm X was assassinated in New York City.
February 22, 1989 – Col. Frederick Gregory was the first African American to command a space shuttle mission.
February 23, 1868 – W.E.B. Dubois, scholar, activist and author of the Souls of Black Folk, was born.
February 24, 1922 – The Washington, DC home of human rights champion Frederick Douglass in was made a national shrine.
February 25, 1853 – First black YMCA organized in Washington, DC
February 26, 1965 – Civil rights activist Jimmie Lee Jackson died after being shot by state police in Marion, AL.
