Origins of Black History Month

Origins of Black History Month

Black History Month was created in the United States in 1926. When historian Carter Godwin Woodson and the Association for the Study of Negro Life. In history, the second week of February was designated as Negro History Week.

 

   Since the 1890s the black community has celebrated the birthdays of two people who have had a major impact on black history in the United States. Abraham Lincoln was the first American president to issue the Declaration of Independence on February 12. 1863 declared all people slaves before emancipation Frederick Douglass became a national leader of the abolitionist movement after escaping from slavery on February 14 and became famous for his anti-slavery writings.

 

  Woodson traveled to Washington, D.C., to participate in a national celebration of freedom, and inspired by his experiences on the trip, he set out to create a top organization for the study of black life and history. . After which he soon became known as Anjuman.

 

  The Association for the Study of African American Life and History sponsored National Negro History Week in 1926. In which the second week of February was chosen on the occasion of the birthdays of Lincoln and Douglas. This inspired schools and communities across the country to organize events to celebrate the first Negro History Week.

 

  With a lukewarm response, the Departments of Education of the states of North Carolina, Delaware, and West Virginia, as well as city school administrators in Baltimore and Washington, DC, felt that at least one week of general movement should be observed annually. Will give me an opportunity to do something.

 

  He felt A theme essential to resonate with a larger audience, Wood's son asserted that the education of black history Month was necessary to ensure the physical and intellectual survival of the race. If a race has no history, it has no valuable tradition. It would become insignificant by 1929, with only two exceptions.

 

  Officials from the state departments of education in each state, in concert with the black population, informed their teachers of the event and distributed official literature churches also played an important role in the distribution of literature, assisting the black press in its publishing efforts. Played a role.

 

Negro History Week of the 1930s countered the growing myth of the Confederacy's lost cause, that blacks were better off in slavery, and that when you control a man's thoughts you need to worry about his actions. No, the son of wood wrote in his book The Miseducation of the Negro. You don't have to tell him not to stand here or to be young, he will find his rightful place and stay in it for decades to come. Meyers endorsed it as Holida.

 

Origins of Black History Month

 

Black History Month was first proposed in February 1969 by black teachers and black students at Kent State University. which was held a year later at Kent State from January 2 to February 28, 1970. Celebrations were being held across the country when President Gerald Char recognized the month during the bicentennial celebrations of the United States.

 

  He urged Americans to take this opportunity to honor these two overlooked accomplishments of Black Americans in every area of our history which is Black History Month. It is celebrated in February in the United States and Canada, Ireland, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom on February 22, 2016.

 

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