This Week In Black History

February 3, 1956

Autherine Lucy enrolls as the first African American student at the University of Alabama.

February 4, 1913

Rosa Parks, civil rights pioneer who sparked Montgomery bus boycott, born.

February 5, 1934

Major league home run champion Hank Aaron born.

February 6, 1867

Robert Tanner Jackson becomes first African American to receive a degree in dentistry.

February 7, 1883

Ragtime pianist and composer Hubie Blake born.

February 8, 1968

Three South Carolina State students killed during segregation protest in Orangeburg, S.C.

February 9, 1964

Arthur Ashe, Jr. becomes first African American on U.S. Davis Cup team.