February 1
I was the youngest-ever Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
I am President Bush's Secretary of State.
February 2
In 1969, I was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
I wrote "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)."
February 5
I received the Congressional Gold Medal in 1999.
I refused to give my bus seat to a white man.
February 6
I was a New Orleans jazz musician.
My nickname was "Satchmo."
February 7
I wrote The Temple of My Familiar.
I won a Pulitzer Prize for The Color Purple.
February 8
I co-wrote the song "A-Tisket, A-Tasket" in 1938.
I won 14 Grammy Awards.
February 9
I was the first black man to win Wimbledon.
I was the first tennis player to earn $100,000 in a year.
February 12
I was a famous abolitionist and suffragette in the 1800s.
I helped desegregate the streetcars in Washington, DC.
February 13
I wrote three autobiographies.
I was an advisor to President Lincoln.
February 14
As a lawyer, I won Brown v. Board of Ed.
I was the first African-American Supreme Court Justice.
February 15
I was the first black photographer at Life magazine.
I wrote The Learning Tree.
February 16
In 1952, I received the World Peace Council Prize.
I founded the NAACP.
February 19
I was a Guggenheim fellow and Poet Laureate.
I was the first black woman to win the Pulitzer.
February 20
I'm a Grammy Award-winning writer and composer.
I read one of my poems at President Clinton's inauguration.
February 21
I was a spy for the Union army.
I freed hundreds of slaves along the Underground Railroad.
February 22
I am a professor at Princeton University.
I won the Pulitzer Prize for the book Beloved.
February 23
I was an agricultural scientist and inventor.
Peanuts, soybeans, and sweet potatoes were my specialty.
February 26
I was committed to black economic independence.
I wrote many books and ran the Tuskegee Institute.
February 27
I was the first black woman to carry an LPGA card.
I was the first African American to win Wimbledon.
February 28
I used Mahatma Gandhi's approach to peace.
"I have a dream..."