Today we recall and celebrate: John Rock who on Feb. 1, 1865 became the first African American attorney to practice before the Supreme Court. He had previously been a Boston Justice of the Peace; Writer Langston Hughes who was born on Feb. 1, 1902. Hughes was one of the most influential artists of the Harlem Renaissance and is thought by many to have been gay; Dr. Bernard Harris, Jr. who on Feb. 2, 1995 became the first African American to walk in space; Rosa Parks who was born on Feb. 2, 1913 in Tuskegee, AL. Ms. Parks is famous for refusing to give up her seat on a bus for a white passenger. She is sometimes referred to as the "mother" of the Civil Rights Movement. In 1996 she was awarded the Medal of Freedom by President Bill Clinton; Warren Moon who on Feb. 4, 2006 became the first African American quarterback to be inducted into the NFL Hall of Fame; Baseball legend Hank Aaron who was born on Feb. 5, 1934; and Eubie Blake who was born in Baltimore on Feb. 7, 1883. The Library of Congress states: "Eubie Blake was one of the most important figures in early-20th-century African American music, and one whose longevity made him a storehouse of the history of ragtime and early jazz music and culture."