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Housing Named for Civil Rights Pioneer
c ontinued from p age 6
1922 and became Oregon’s first
African American woman to
practice law. In 1932, she ran for
the Oregon House of Represen-
tatives—the first African Amer-
ican to run for elected office in
Oregon. Despite not being able
to vote herself (African Ameri-
cans were not allowed to vote in
Oregon in 1932), Morrow-Can-
nady earned 8,000 votes. Al-
though she did not win the seat,
she continued to work tirelessly
to improve race relations.
She gave hundreds of lectures
to white high school and col-
lege students and was invited to
speak on KGW, KOIN and other
radio stations. She also hosted
multicultural tea parties at her
home every Sunday afternoon
which combined entertainment,
cultural history and politics. The
assemblies received such a pos-
itive response that as many as
200 people would attend.
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about The Beatrice Morrow and
other PCRI developments, visit
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February 2017
MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY
1
National Freedom Day
Robinson Crusoe Day
First meeting of the
U.S. Supreme Court
(1790)
5
Weatherman’s Day
Disaster Day
Hank Aaron born,
1934
12
Judy Blume born,
1938
Abraham Lincoln
born, 1809 (16th
President)
19
Phonograph Patent-
ed, Thomas Edison
in 1878
26
Levi Strauss born,
1829
William F. Cody
born, 1846 (Pony
Express Rider)
6
7
Babe Ruth born,
1895
Monopoly Board
Game Goes on Sale
in Stores, 1935
Charles Dickens
born, 1812
Laura Ingalls Wilder
born, 1867
13
14
Get a Different
Name Day
First Public School
established (1635)
George Washington
Gale Ferris born,
1859
Ferris Wheel Day
8
Boy Scouts’ Day
(Founded 1910)
Author Jules Verne
born, 1828
15
Norman Bridwell
born, 1928
Susan B. Anthony
born, 1820
Valentine’s Day
20
President’s Day
John Glenn Orbits
Earth in 1962
Love Your Pet Day
27
Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow born,
1807
International Polar
Bear Day
21
Malcom X Assassi-
nated (1965)
Washington Mon-
ument dedicated
(1885)
28
Mardi Gras
Public Sleeping Day
Gold Seekers arrived
in San Francisco
(1849)
R
22
George Washington
born, 1732
Be Humble Day
World Thinking Day
FRIDAY
2
Groundhog Day
Bottle Cap Patented
in 1892
3
Elizabeth Blackwell
born, 1821 (first
female doctor)
Vietnam War Ended
(1973)
9
National Weather
Service Est. (1870)
Toothache Day
10
Umbrella Day
Ratification of the
25th Amendment in
1967 (Presidential
Succession)
16
Nylon Patented By
DuPont in 1937
King Tut’s Burial
Chamber opened in
1923
23
International Dog
Biscuit Apprecia-
tion Day
U.S. Flag raised at
Iwo Jima (1945)
17
Random Acts of
Kindness Day
National P.T.A.
Founder’s Day
(1897)
SATURDAY
4
Facebook First
Launched in 2004
as thefacebook.com
Rosa Parks born,
1913
11
Thomas Edison
born, 1847
National Inventors’
Day
White T-Shirt Day
18
Former planet, Plu-
to, Discovered By
Clyde Tombaugh in
1930
24
25
Steve Jobs born,
1955
Wilhelm Carl Grimm
born, 1786
Quiet Day
Artist Pierre Auguste
Renoir born, 1841