(Photo By Flickr User David Axe)

Welcome again, family, to another trek in African-American History!

Here are a few informational tidbits inside of the Black History Scope!

Black History Scope For February 20th:

1869-Tennessee Governor W.C. Brownlow, declared martial law in nine countries in Ku Klux Klan crisis.

1895-Death of Frederick Douglass (78), Anacostia Heights, District of Columbia. Douglass was the leading Black spokesman for almost fifty years. He was a major abolitionist and a lecturer and editor.

1900-J.F. Bickering patents airship invention

1927-On this day Sidney Poitier, who will be the first African-American to win an Academy Award in a starring role, is born in Miami, FL.

1929-Writer Wallace Thurman’s play Harlem opens in New York City, NY. It is the first successful play by an African-American playwright.

1931-Army Lt. Gen. Emmett Paige, Jr. born in Jacksonville, FL.

1936-Death of John Hope (67), president, Atlanta University.

1937-Jazz singer, actress, Nancy Wilson, born on this day in Chillicothe, OH.

1963-Charles Wade Barkley, actor, sports analyst, and basketball player, born Leeds, AL on this day.

1968-State troopers used tear gas to stop demonstrations at Alcorn A&M College (now Alcorn State University; Lorman, MS) on this day.

(Information courtesy of blackfacts.com)