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— 250 years since 1776. Explore two and a half centuries of American history.
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Anniversaries in American history that fall on February 1.
1960 · Events / Protests & Movements
Greensboro sit-ins begin
Four Black college students sit at a Woolworth's lunch counter; movement spreads nationally
Civil Rights Movement
1902 · People / Artists & Writers
Langston Hughes born
Poet, Playwright, and Voice of the Harlem Renaissance
Langston Hughes