February 11 – First black legal protest in America takes place by eleven Blacks who petitioned for freedom in New Netherlands (New York), 1644.
February 12 – Pianist Eubie Blake dies in Brooklyn, NY, five days after his 100th birthday, 1983.
February 12 – NBA legend William Felton Russell, better known as “Bill” Russell is born in Monroe, Louisiana, 1934.
February 12 – NAACP is founded in New York City by a group of black and white citizens committed to social justice, 1909.
February 13 – Southern Christian Leadership Conference is organized at a New Orleans meeting with Martin Luther King Jr. as president, 1957.
February 17 – Opera singer Marian Anderson is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1902.
February 17 – Huey Newton, co-founder of the Black Panther Party is born, 1942.
February 18 – First formal protest against slavery by organized white body in English America is made by Germantown (Pa.) Quakers at monthly meeting, 1688.
February 18 – Morehouse College is organized in Augusta, Georgia. The institution was later moved to Atlanta, 1867.
February 19 – Vonetta Flowers becomes the first black gold medalist in the history of the Winter Olympic Games, 2002.
February 19 – John Singleton becomes the first African American director to be nominated for the Academy Award is nominated for best director and best screenplay for his first film Boyz N the Hood, 1992.