February 28th

On this day,

the greatest entertainer of them all, Michael Jackson won 8 awards at the 26th Grammy Awards program in 1984.

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February 27th

On this day,

Anna Julia Haywood Cooper rose to become one of the best-educated Black Women ever.  She went on to earn a PhD at the Sorbonne in France, and excelled as an educator, university founder, author, sociologist, feminist, and an activist against all oppression.  She published a seminal book, A Voice from the South, considered to be one of the first major works on feminism. Anna J Cooper died on this day in 1964 at the age of 105.

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February 26th

On this day,

 In 1869, The United States Congress passed The Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution which prohibited states and the federal government from denying a citizen the rights to vote.  It, however, only applied to males.  It was duly ratified on March 30, 1870.

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