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Black History for February 1st:

1865: The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which abolished slavery, was adopted by the 38th Congress. Ratification was completed December 6, 1865.

-John Sweat Rock (1825-1866), a noted Boston lawyer, became in 1865 the first African-American to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court and the first Black person to speak before the U.S. House of Representatives.

1926: What is now known as Black History Month, was first celebrated on this date as Negro History Week by Carter G. Woodson. It became a month long celebration in 1976.

1937: Actor/Comedian Garrett Morris, formerly of Saturday Night Live & The Jamie Foxx Show, born in New Orleans, LA.

1952: Rock/Funk singer Rick James (James Ambrose Johnson, Jr.) born in Buffalo, NY.

1965: More than 700 demonstrators, including Martin Luther King Jr., arrested in Selma, AL.

1967: Poet Langston Hughes dies.

1974: “Good Times” premieres on CBS.

1978: The first stamp of the U.S. Postal Service’s Black Heritage USA series honors Harriet Tubman, famed abolitionist and “conductor” on the Underground Railroad

1997: BET Broadcast Holdings and Encore Media Corporation launch BET Movie/Starz (Starz In Black) the first 24 hour Black Movie channel.