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Black History Has Been Honoured in the USA since 1926

9/27/20

In 1926, Carter G. Woodson and the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History announced the second week in February would be "Negro History Week". That was the official beginning of a systematic celebration of black history, art and culture in the US.

A few decades later, in 1969, Black United Students from Kent State University suggested the expansion of a week honouring black history to a full month and named it the Black History Month.

It was recognized by the government in 1976, accompanied by President Gerald Ford's famous words, "seize the opportunity to honour the too-often neglected accomplishments of black Americans in every area of endeavour throughout our history."

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The Origins of the Civil War Lie in Slavery

9/28/20


After the Revolutionary War, use of slavery gradually decreased through anti-slavery laws and, by 1840, virtually all African-Americans were free citizens in the North. But the South was still inclined to use slavery and these differences ultimately led to the secession of seven slave states in the South from the Union, starting the 4-year long Civil War. The Union eventually won and slaves were freed all across the nation.

Today's American Youth is Well-Educated about Black History

9/29/20 

Black history facts reveal that the history of the African-American community is knowledgable but the youth of America seems to appreciate and understand their struggle nowadays, although the inequality still hasn't been eliminated completely.

According to a study carried out in 2005, American students were asked to name 10 most notable Americans, excluding presidents. The three most frequently mentioned individuals were Martin Luther King Jr, Rosa Parks, and Harriet Tubman.

The Emancipation Proclamation, the Civil Rights Act, and the 14th Amendment Ended Slavery

9/30/20

The Emancipation Proclamation that was issued in 1863 by President Lincoln turned slaves into free citizens, but the order could be fully enforced only in the years after the Civil War had ended. Although the 13th Amendment from 1865 prohibited slavery, black history facts reveal that there were two other important documents that actually gave African-Americans their freedom: the Civil Rights Act in 1866 and the 14th Amendment in 1868, which made African-Americans full citizens of the USA.


The earliest recorded protest against slavery was by the Quakers in 1688.

10/1/20

Quakers, also known as "The Society of Friends," have a long history of abolition. But it was four Pennsylvania Friends from Germantown who wrote the initial protest in the 17th century. They saw the slave trade as a grave injustice against their fellow man and used the Golden Rule to argue against such inhumane treatment; regardless of skin color.

Did you know? 

10/2/20

Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on friend Maya Angelou's birthday, on April 4, 1968. Angelou stopped celebrating her birthday for years afterward, and sent flowers to King's widow, Coretta Scott King, for more than 30 years, until Coretta's death in 2006.

Before there was Rosa Parks, there was Claudette Colvin.

10/3/20

Most people think of Rosa Parks as the first person to refuse to give up their seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. There were actually several women who came before her; one of whom was Claudette Colvin.

It was March 2, 1955, when the fifteen-year-old schoolgirl refused to move to the back of the bus, nine months before Rosa Parks' stand that launched the Montgomery bus boycott. Claudette had been studying Black leaders like Harriet Tubman in her segregated school, those conversations had led to discussions around the current day Jim Crow laws they were all experiencing.

A very quote she had said was "It felt like Sojourner Truth was on one side pushing me down, and Harriet Tubman was on the other side of me pushing me down. I couldn't get up."

Phillis Wheatley 

1753-1784

10/5/20

Phillis Wheatley was the first published African American female author. She was a servant who published her first poem at the age of 12 in the mid-1700s.

Mahalia Jackson Is Responsible for the Famous "I Have a Dream"

10/8/20

Although the speech was, of course, written (together with Stanley Levison and Clarence Benjamin Jones) and read by Martin Luther King Jr. himself, it originally didn't contain the famous "I Have a Dream" section. Those iconic words came about as part of Luther King's improvisation after Mahalia Jackson, the famous gospel singer, cried out "Tell them about the dream, Martin!"

African Origin

10/13/20

 

The human race is of African origin. The oldest known skeletal remains of anatomically modern humans (or homo sapiens sapiens) were excavated at sites in East Africa. Human remains were discovered at Omo in Ethiopia that were dated at 195,000 years old, the oldest known in the world.

Lincoln University 

10/16/20

Lincoln University in Pennsylvania became the first degree-granting institution of higher education for African Americans. It paved the way for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).

Population 

10/20/20


The black population of the United States in 1870 was 4.8 million. In 2018, the number of black residents of the United States 43.8 million.

African American History in schools

10/26/20

A 2015 report conducted by the National Museum of African American History and Culture and Oberg Research found that while most teachers acknowledged the importance of teaching Black history, only 8% or 9% of class time in US schools is devoted to the subject.

Narrative Of Frederick Douglass

11/1/20

"The Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass" 1845, sold 30,000 copies in the USA and Britain by 1860. Born free but kidnapped and sold back into slavery, Solomon Northrup's narrative sold 27,000 in its first two years.

African American History

11/9/20

African American history entails American history with regard to the black ethnic group that formed its root in America after being enslaved by the whites in their homeland. The heinous tradition of holding blacks in captivity and enslaving them began in the mid 16th century and lasted till 1865. Most of the blacks who make African American history were slaves.

Black History Started in 1619

11/27/20

Black History is the story of people of African descent. People from Africa were first brought to the Americas before the United States even existed. The first Africans were brought as slaves to provide forced labor in the American colonies that would become the United States. The first African slaves arrived in 1619.


Emancipation Proclamation 

11/28/20

In 1863, President Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring "that all persons held as slaves" within the Confederate states "are, and henceforward shall be free." Then in 1870, the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution is ratified, giving blacks the right to vote.

African American students are more likely to attend high-poverty public schools.

12/10/20


47.5 percent of African American students attend schools where at least 75 percent of students are "eligible for free or reduced-price lunch." By contrast, only 7.6 percent of white students attend schools where at least 75 percent of students are eligible. Schools in high-poverty neighborhoods tend to be underresourced and not adequately equipped to teach the students they serve.

In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. 

 A man that will never be forgotten.


1/18/20 

Martin Luther King Jr was an amazing man who fought for equality rights for African Americans and made a difference throughout his life that he lived. Everyone might know him from his ¨I had a dream speech¨ that became his most known words he had spoken. With everything he had accomplished he won the nobel peace prize in 1964 with many others being nominated. Martin Luther achieved a lot in his time that he lived as an extraordinary strong African American Man. Sadly April 4, 1968 we lost Martin. Approximately at 6:05 p.m. Martin Luther King Jr was shot at a motel in Memphis, Tennessee where he was reported dead. This man needs to be remembered for everything he put himself through to fight for the African American community and was still fighting till the day he died. In honor of Martin Luther King and his amazing ways we remember him each and everyday but especially this day.


Black History Month 

Let's celebrate every month! 

2/5/20

Black History Month is a month that is all bout all the legends and the ones still alive for their accomplishment from what they believed in, a whole month to celebrate them! All year round we should celebrate what they have done for our country the right for us African Americans what they've done for our rights! We are celebrating now and forever! 

Will be posting weekly Black History material that you should look at or visit online !

 The wreckage of America's last known slave ship was finally found!

2/12/21

Buying and selling slaves was legal in the 1860s, but the importation of enslaved was a crime.  A man named Timothy Meaher received a ship to sneak in enslaved people into a different country. Clotilda was the ship's name, racing them to their destination, transferring them to a new boat and sinking the remains of the other boat. 159 years later the Clotilda was found in 2019 in the Alabama Moblie river. 

Interracial marriage was banned in the U.S. until 1967

2/16/21

Interracial marriage back in 1664 was banned between races in the unites states. This law was first enforced in Maryland. It took more than 300 years for this law to pass and look at it today some people still to this day don't like it, but love is love.  Embrace it! 

Underground Railroad Quilt Codes 

2/17/21

During the slavery times, slaves would use make quilts and on those quilts, they would put special codes on there letting runaways if it's safe where your approach if it is safe to come or keep going. There are many different codes that are made from these quilts and it's just a beautiful thing that they came up with to be able to communicate without words. 

Click the link below for interesting stories about the quilts !!

https://www.womenfolk.com/quilting_history/abolitionist.htm



Cornrows used for slavery signals 

2/18/21

Back in South Africa slaves used cornrows to escape slavery. During the hard times of slavery, slave owners would force slaves to shave their hair for things to be more sanitary moving them away from their culture. There would be many different hairstyles slaves would wear for example if someone wanted to signal that they wanted to escape, women would braid departes, which was a hairstyle that had thick tight braids, briaded close to the scalp, and was tied into buns on the top. This technique would help slaves communicate better with the slave owners not knowing.  

A Week Becomes a Month.

2/20/21

The civil rights movement of the 1960s helped elevate Negro History Week to national prominence... and turn it into a month-long celebration. As a result, in 1976, President Gerald Ford made things official, proclaiming February to be Black History Month.

The Ocoee Election Day Massacre 

3/11/21


On Feb. 3, 1870, the 15th Amendment was ratified, giving African American men the right to vote. By Election Day 1920, it had been legal for 50 years, but many Black citizens still didn't exercise their right to vote out of fear of retribution. Those fears came true in Ocoee, Florida, on Nov. 2, 1920, which ultimately ended as the most violent day in American election history.

Xavier University

5/11/21

A very historical black college in Louisiana that has one of the highest success rates in the country for getting their graduates into medical school.

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