EDSITEment Calendar



EDSITEment Calendar for February 2002 African-American History Month A collection of peer-reviewed websites and EDSITEment lesson plans covering holidays and special events.

LEGEND: (W) = Website Feature (LP) = Lesson Plan (ALA) = Additional Learning Activity * = This Month's Feature

M	TU	W	TH	F	SA/SU
				1 Born 119Langston Hughes, African-American poet Writing Poetry Like the Pros (LP) 1926 Carter Woodson initiates "NegroHistory Week" Explore DC (W)	2 2002 Groundhog Day
					3 1870 15th Amendment Black suffrage ratified My History is Ameica's History Timeline (W)
4 1822 Free American Blacks Settle Liberia Art & Life inAfrica Online (W) 1914 US congress approves Burnett anti-immigration law Where I Come From (LP)	5 1917 Mexican Constitution adopted LANIC (W)	6 1936 4th Winter Olympics open in Germany US Holocaust Memorial Museum: Winter Games (W)	7 1812 Born- British novelist Charles Dickens Victorian Web (W)	8 1887 Dawes Act passed-Indians living apart from tribe granted citizenship Native Web (W)	9 1995 Bernard Harris first Black astronaut to take spacewalk, dedicates it to achievements of all African Americans
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11 1945 FDR, Stalin, Churchill,sign Yalta Agreement Avalon Project (W) 1951 Kwame Nkrumah wins election, Ghana Art & Life in Africa Online (W) 1951 Nelson Mandela released from prison African Voices: History (W)	12 1809 Born-Abraham Lincoln, 16th US president The American President (W) 2002 Chinese New Year- Year of the Horse AskAsia: Korean Zodiac (W) 2002 Mardi Gras The Meaning Behind the Mask (LP) What Masks Reveal (LP)	13 1689 British Parliament adopts Bill of Rights 1957 Southern Christian Leadership Conference organizes in New Orleans	14 Valentine's Day 1817 Born- Frederick Douglass, African-American abolitionist Perspectives on the Slave Narrative (LP)	15 1483 Born-Babur, founder of Mughal dynasty, India SARAI (W) 1564 Born-Galileo Galilei, astronomer Galileo and the Inevitability of Ideas (LP) 1898 Battleship Maine blows up; US begins Spanish-Cuban-American War LANIC (W)	16 National deaf college Gallaudet College forms
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18 1688 Quakers, Mennonites first whites to protest slavery Avalon Project (W) 1885 Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn published Mark Twain & American Humor (LP) 2002 President's Day, US I Do Solemnly Swear (LP)	19 1674 Peace of Westminster- NYC becomes English What They Left Behind (LP) 1861 Russian Tzar Alexander II abolishes serfdom Bucknell Russian Studies (W) 1919 WEB DuBois organizes first Pan-African Congress, Paris Harlem 1900-1940 (W)	20 1805 Born- Angelina Grimké, abolitionist & lawyer Women and Social Movements in the US, 1775-1940 (W) 1962 John Glenn first American to orbit Earth	21 1795 Freedom of worship was established in France under the constitution that came out of the French Revolution of 1789 1885 Washington Monument dedicated Explore DC (W)	22 1732 Born- George Washington, 1st US President The Living Symbol (LP) Great Speeches: Mark Twain on "Defense of General Funston" (W) George Washington Papers (W)	23 2002 Eid al-Adhha- Muslim Feast of Sacrifice Asia Source: Islam (W)
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25 1868 Andrew Johnson impeached for vioating Tenure of Office Act Harpweek (W) 1987 US Supreme Court upholds affirmative action Oyex, Oyez, Oyez: US vs. Paradise (W) 2002 Purim begins at sundown	26 1885 Berlin Act- European powers partition Africa Art & Life in Africa Online: Issues in African History (W)	27 1807 Born- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, US poet American Verse Project (W) 1902 Born- John Steinbeck, writer Dust Bowl Days (LP) 1933 Nazis burn Reichstag Holocaust and Resistance (LP)	28 1879 "Exodus of 1879" southern blacks flee political/economic exploitation New Perspectives on the West (W) 1940 Richard Wright's Native Son published Modern American Poetry (W)	29 1692 Salem Witch Trials begin - Tituba, Sarah Good, and Sarah Osborne accused of witchcraft Witchcraft in Salem Village (W)