1704 — Elias Neau, a Frenchman, opened school for black in New York City.
1708 — Slaves revolt on Long Island. Seven whites killed. Two black male slaves and an Indian slaved were hanged and a black woman was burned alive.
1778 — Rhode Island General Assembly authorized enlistment of slaves.
1859 — Arkansas Legislature required free blacks to choose between exile and enslavement.
1871 — Second Enforcement Act gave federal officers and courts control of registration and voting in congressional elections.
1879 — Southern blacks fled political and economic exploitation in “Exodus of 1879.” One of the major leaders of the Exodus movement was a former slave, Benjamin “Pap” Singleton.
1932 — Richard Spikes invented/patented the automatic gear shift.
1940 — United States population is 131,669,275. Black population is 12,865,518, or 9.8 percent of total population. Richard Wright’s “Native Son” published.
1942 — Race riot in Detroit’s Sojourner Truth Homes.
1943 — “Porgy and Bess” opened on Broadway with Anne Brown and Todd Duncan in starring roles.
1948 — Sgt. Cornelius F. Adjetey becomes the first martyr for national independence of Ghana.
1977 — Comedian Eddie “Rochester” Anderson died. He was 71.
1984 — Michael Jackson won eight Grammy Awards for his “Thriller” album.
1990 — Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Cornelius Gunter, lead singer of the Coasters, was shot to death in Las Vegas. Gunter joined the group in 1957 and was around for such hits as “Poison Ivy” and “Charlie Brown.”
1990 — Philip Emeagwali awarded the Gordon Bell Prize for solving one of the 20 most difficult problems in the computing field.
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February 28, 2012
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