Feb. 2. 1962: Eleven blacks and eight whites arrested for overnight sit-in for integrated schools at Englewood, NJ, City Hall.

Feb. 3. 1931: The Arkansas state legislature passes a motion to pray for the soul of newspaper columnist H. L. Mencken after he calls the state "the apex of moronia."

Feb. 4. 1970: After 35 days, the Menominee Indians end their occupation of an unused Gresham, WI, Roman Catholic novitiate, when the church promises to deed it to them for a tribal hospital.

Feb. 5. 1830: First daily labor paper, "New York Daily Sentinel," begins publication.

Feb. 6. 1973: Two hundred American Indian Movement protesters clash with police for three days in Custer, SD, over murder of Wesley Bad Heart; 37 arrested.

Feb. 7. 1968: After American and South Vietnamese air and artillery strikes level the city of Bentre, South Vietnam (pop. 50,000), a US Army major explains that "it became necessary to destroy the town to save it."

Feb. 8. 1968: South Carolina highway patrolmen kill 4 and wound 33 as black students protest at a segregated bowling alley in Orangeburg, SC. First student protest deaths in the 1960s.

Feb. 9. 1906: Paul Laurence Dunbar, son of a slave, the first black writer in the US to support himself by writing, dies in Dayton, OH. 1970: Underground "Rat" publishes Robin Morgan's "Goodbye to All That" feminist statement in New York.

Feb. 10. 1898: Birth of Marxist playwright Bertolt Brecht, Augsburg, Germany. Doctor, poet, playwright, theatrical reformer. Fled right wing German Nazis. After moving to the US, fled from the Land of the Free when right wing HUAC came after him during the Cold War.

Feb. 11. 1916: Black feminist and civil-rights activist Flo Kennedy is born in Kansas City, MO. As a lawyer, Kennedy represented Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker & H. Rap Brown. In 1966, she founded the Media Workshop to confront racism in media & advertising. In 1972 she formed the Feminist Party and filed an IRS complaint alleging that the Catholic Church violated tax-exempt requirements by spending money to influence political decisions.

Feb. 12. 1947: Between 400 and 500 veterans and conscientious objectors from WWI and WWII burn their draft cards in two demonstrations, in front of the White House and at the Labor Temple in New York City, in protest of a proposed universal conscription law. First draft card burning in US.

Feb. 13. 1907: English suffragettes storm British Parliament; 60 women are arrested.

Feb. 14. 1921: In New York, Jane Heap and Margaret Anderson face obscenity charges for publishing a portion of James Joyce's "Ulysses." They get fined $50.

Feb. 15. 2003: In the single largest day of protests in world history, millions on six continents demonstrate against US/UK plans to invade Iraq. Reported totals include 1-2 million in London and Rome; 1.3 million in Barcelona (a city of 1.5 million); a half million in Berlin, Paris, Madrid, and New York. Smaller demonstrations are held in over 600 cities and towns across the US, including tens of thousands in several cities and 150,000 the following day in San Francisco.