The Center for the Church and the Black Experience celebrates Black History Month 2013

1945 – PRESIDENT JEAN-CLAUDE DUVALIER FLEES HAITI 

Twenty-eight years of one-family rule end in Haiti, when President Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier flees the Caribbean nation.

1974 - GRENADA BECOMES INDEPENDENT FROM THE UNITED KINGDOM

The Caribbean nation of Grenada becomes independent from the United Kingdom.

1991 – ARISTIDE FIRST ELECTED AS PRESIDENT OF HAITI

Haiti's first democratically-elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, is sworn in.

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Throughout the month of February, Garrett-Evangelical's Center for the Church and the Black Experience will be providing Daily Knowledge Nuggets in honor of Black History Month. Content provided by: blackhistorydaily.com, aetnaafricanamericancalendar.com/2013, and theblackmarket.com/February.