Ruby Joy Glory, our precious firstborn, turns FOUR years old on the 17th of this month. In honor of Black History Month, here are some other notables who share her birthday month:
Jan 31st- Jackie Robinsons birthday
1st- Harriet Tubman became the first black woman honored on a U.S. postage stamp
1st- Langston Huges, poet, born 1902. Read this children's picture book- Langston's Train Ride by Robert Burleigh, illustrated by Leonard Jenkins (Orchard, 2004)
2nd- William Ellisworth Artis was born, 1914
3rd- Charles Turner- zoologist and inventor born 1867.
4th- Rosa Parks born 1913
5th- Jermain Wesley Loguens birthday
5th- Hank Aaron, Athlete- born 1934. Check out this children's book- Hank Aaron: Brave in Every Way by Peter Golenbock, illustrated byPaul Lee (Gulliver Books, 2001)
6th- Anne Spencer, poet- born 1882
8th- Justina Ford, doctor, born 1871
10th- Leontyne Price, soprano, born 1927
11th- National Inventors Day (great day to read about George Washington Carver, Eli Whitney and others)
11th- Daniel James, aviator- US Air force, born 1920
12th- Abraham Lincolns birthday (Selected Speeches of Booker T. Washington, p. 193, to the Republican Club of New York City, February 12, 1909 (Lincoln's 100th birthday)
13th- Emmett Scott, author, born 1873
14th- Frederick Douglass, born 1818
15th- Fay Jackson, journalist, born 1902
18th- Toni Morrison, the first black woman to receive Nobel Prize in Literature, born 1931.
22nd- Horace Pippin, African American artist born around 1888.
23rd- W. E. B. Du Bois, (William Edward Burghardt), born 1868.
24th- Lillie Brown, civil rights activist, born 1931
25th- Ida Cox, blues singer, born 1923.
26th- Sissieretta Jones, African-American concert and spiritual singer. Born 1869.
27th- Marian Anderson, singer, born 1897.
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