February - Black History Month
Black History Month is an annual observance originating in the United States, where it is also known as African-American History Month. It has received official recognition from governments in the United States and Canada and more recently has been observed in Ireland, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom.
Here are the Black Saints recognized by the Episcopal Church.
- Anna Julia Haywood Cooper and Elizabeth Evelyn Wright, Educators, 1964, 1904, February 28
- Edward Thomas Demby and Henry Beard Delany, Bishops, 1957, 1928 April 14
- George Freeman Bragg, Jr. Priest, 1940, August 3
- Harry Thacker Burleigh, Composer, 1949 Sept. 11
- James Theodore Holly Bishop of Haiti, and of the Dominican Republic, 1911, March 13 or Nov. 8
- Absalom Jones Priest, 1818 Feb. 13
- Frances Joseph Gaudet Educator and Prison Reformer, 1934 Dec. 30
- Sojourner Truth and Harriet Ross Tubman, Liberators and Prophets, 1883, 1913, July 20 (Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Amelia Bloomer share this date too)
- Maria Stewart, Prophetic Witnesses, 1879 Dec. 17
- Thurgood Marshall, lawyer and jurist, 1993 May 17
- Richard Allen, First Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, 1831 March 26
- James Weldon Johnson, Poet, 1938 June 25
- Alexander Crummell, priest and missionary 1898, September 10
- William Edward Burghardt DuBois, Sociologist, 1963 August 3
- Frederick Douglass], Prophetic Witness, 1895 Feb. 20
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