AFRICAN AMERICAN
BLACK
HISTORY
MONTH
Black history Month
Black history is more than a month
Canada celebrates
Black History Month in February
The U.K. celebrates
Black History Month in October
THE HISTORY OF BLACK HISTORY
30 FACTS FOR BLACK HISTORY MONTH
BLACK HISTORY MONTH LINKS
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SECTION 1
THE
HISTORY
OF
BLACK HISTORY
Americans have recognized black history annually since 1926, first as
"Negro History Week" and later as "Black History Month."
What you might not know is that black history had barely begun to be
studied-or even documented-when the tradition originated. Although
black people have been in America at least as far back as colonial
times, it was not until the 20th century that they gained a respectable
presence in the history books.
The History of Black History
https://www.infoplease.com/history-black-history
Abolitionism, or the abolitionist movement
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abolitionism
African American cinema
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_American_cinema
African-American Heritage Sites
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_Heritage_Sites
African-American history
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_history
African-American Music Appreciation Month
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_Music_Appreciation_Month
A. G. Gaston
Arthur George Gaston
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._G._Gaston
Andrew Jackson Young Jr.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Young
Annie Minerva Turnbo Malone
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Turnbo_Malone
Atlantic slave trade
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_slave_trade
Benjamin Banneker
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Banneker
Berlin Conference
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Conference
Black Americans
African Americans,
Afro-Americans
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Americans
Black American Heritage Flag
The African American Heritage Flag
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_American_cinema
Black nationalism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_nationalism
Black Panther Party
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Panther_Party
Blaxploitation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaxploitation
Booker T. Washington
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booker_T._Washington
Brown v. Board of Education
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_v._Board_of_Education
Boycott
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boycott
Carter Godwin Woodson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carter_G._Woodson
Category:Anti-black racism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Anti-black_racism
Celestine Edwards
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celestine_Edwards
Charles Hamilton Houston Sr.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Hamilton_Houston
Civil disorder
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_disorder
Colonization
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonization
The Commission for Racial Equality (CRE)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commission_for_Racial_Equality
The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congress_of_Racial_Equality
Congressional Black Caucus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Black_Caucus
The Crisis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crisis
Daisy Bates (activist)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisy_Bates_(activist)
Deacons for Defense and Justice DDJ
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deacons_for_Defense_and_Justice
Drapetomania
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drapetomania
Dunbar High School (Washington, D.C.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar_High_School_(Washington,_D.C.)
Drapetomania
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drapetomania
Dr. Charles R. Drew
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_R._Drew
Dred Scott v. Sandford
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dred_Scott_v._Sandford
Dr. Mae Carol Jemison
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mae_Jemison
Dr. Vernon Johns
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernon_Johns
Ella Josephine Baker
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ella_Baker
Elijah P. Marrs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elijah_P._Marrs
Florestine Perrault Collins
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florestine_Perrault_Collins
Frederick Douglass
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Douglass
Freedom's Journal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom%27s_Journal
Freedom Riders
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Riders
Garrett Morgan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garrett_Morgan
Genocide
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide
George Washington Carver
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_Carver
Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwendolyn_Brooks
The Harlem Hellfighters
369th Infantry Regiment (United States)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/369th_Infantry_Regiment_(United_States)
Harlem Renaissance
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlem_Renaissance
Hazel Johnson-Brown
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazel_Johnson-Brown
HeLa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HeLa
Henrietta Lacks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Lacks
History of Africa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Africa
Human rights
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights
Ida B. Wells
Ida Bell Wells-Barnett
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_B._Wells
Indentured servitude
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indentured_servitude
Jackie Ormes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Ormes
James Forten
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Forten
The Jewish Confederates
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jewish_Confederates
Josiah Henson
Uncle Tom
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josiah_Henson
Kerner Commission
The National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerner_Commission
Langston Hughes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langston_Hughes
Lily-white movement
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lily-white_movement
Lorraine Vivian Hansberry
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorraine_Hansberry
Lucy Craft Laney
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Craft_Laney
Maggie L. Walker
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maggie_L._Walker
Marcus Garvey
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Garvey
Margaret Murray Washington
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Murray_Washington
Marvel Jackson Cooke
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvel_Cooke
Mary Ellen Pleasant
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Ellen_Pleasant
Mary McLeod Bethune
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_McLeod_Bethune
Martin Delany
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Delany
Middle Passage
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Passage
National Association of Black Journalists
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Association_of_Black_Journalists
Nat Turner
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nat_Turner
The Negro Family:
The Case For National Action,
the Moynihan Report
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Negro_Family:_The_Case_For_National_Action
The Negro Motorist Green Book
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Negro_Motorist_Green_Book
The New Negro
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Negro
Oppression
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oppression
Patrice Émery Lumumba
Isaïe Tasumbu Tawosa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrice_Lumumba
Paul Laurence Dunbar
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Laurence_Dunbar
Phillis Wheatley Peters, Phyllis and Wheatly
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillis_Wheatley
Racial battle fatigue
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_battle_fatigue
Racial integration
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_integration
Racial segregation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_segregation
Rainbow Coalition (Fred Hampton)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_Coalition_(Fred_Hampton)
Rainbow/PUSH
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow/PUSH
Ralph Johnson Bunche
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Bunche
Reconstruction era
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconstruction_era
Red Summer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Summer
Richard Aoki
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Aoki
Robert Smalls
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Smalls
Segregation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segregation
Septima Poinsette Clark
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Septima_Poinsette_Clark
Sir William Arthur Lewis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Arthur_Lewis
Solidarity or solidarism
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solidarity
Slavocracy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavocracy
Solidarity, solidarism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solidarity
SCLC Southern Christian
Leadership Conference
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Christian_Leadership_Conference
The Southern Poverty Law Center SPLC
https://www.splcenter.org/
Stereotypes of African Americans
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereotypes_of_African_Americans
Thirteenth Amendment to the
United States Constitution
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
Thomas Fuller (mental calculator)
"Negro Demus"
"Virginia Calculator"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Fuller_(mental_calculator)
Thoroughgood "Thurgood" Marshall
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurgood_Marshall
Toni Morrison
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toni_Morrison
Valerie Thomas
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_Thomas
Voting Rights Act of 1965
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_Rights_Act_of_1965
Wallace Thurman
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace_Thurman
Wheeler Airlines
Wheeler Flying Service (WHAA)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheeler_Airlines
WERD (Atlanta)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WERD_(Atlanta)
White backlash,
white rage
whitelash,
white grievance
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_backlash
Willa Beatrice Brown
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willa_Brown
William Henry Holtzclaw
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Henry_Holtzclaw
William Still
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Still
William Wells Brown
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wells_Brown
Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC),
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_Army_Corps
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni Jr.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikki_Giovanni
Zora Neale Hurston
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zora_Neale_Hurston
African American
"Great Migrations":
Great Migration (African American)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Migration_(African_American)
Second Great Migration (African American)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Great_Migration_(African_American)
New Great Migration
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Great_Migration
Black History Month
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_History_Month
NAACP
The National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAACP
The Great Migration
the Great Northward Migration
the Black Migration
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Migration_(African_American)
MOVE
(Philadelphia organization)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOVE_(Philadelphia_organization)
Ilyasah Shabazz
https://www.ilyasahshabazz.com/
What Does 'Black Fatigue' Mean And Is It
Racist? The Controversial Slang Term Explained
https://knowyourmeme.com/editorials/guides/what-does-black-fatigue-mean-and-is-it-racist-the-controversial-slang-term-explained
Young Patriots Organization and
the original Rainbow Coalition
https://yporc.org/
ASALH
The Founders of
Black History Month
https://asalh.org/
Black History
Month
Resource Guide
http://www.thrall.org/blackhistorymonth/
The National
Association of Colored
Women’s Clubs, Inc.,
NACWC
https://www.nacwc1896.org/
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SECTION 2
30 FACTS
FOR
BLACK
HISTORY MONTH
In celebration of Black History Month here are 30 Facts you might
not have been aware of...
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People,
a civil rights organization, was founded in 1909
Black History Month began as “Negro History Week,”
Created in 1926 by Carter G. Woodson, a noted African American
historian, scholar, educator, and publisher
February was chosen to coincide with Frederick Douglass’s and
Abraham Lincoln’s birthdays
Woodson built Negro History Week around traditional days of
commemorating the black past to extend public’s study of black
history
The 1920s was the decade of the New Negro, the Post-War I
generation with rising racial pride and consciousness
In the 1940s, efforts increased within black community to expand
the study of black history in the schools
During the Civil Rights Movement in the South, some schools
incorporated Black history into the curriculum with the hopes
of advancing social change
As early as 1940s, blacks in West Virginia began to celebrate
February as Negro History Month
Became a national month-long celebration in 1976
Canada celebrates Black History Month in February
The U.K. celebrates Black History Month in October
In 1739, the Stono Rebellion in South Carolina became the largest
slave revolt in colonial America
The first black U.S. senator was Hiram Revels in 1870
1 in 4 cowboys was Black, despite the stories told in popular books
and movies
Dr. Mae Jemison became the first African American woman to go into
space aboard the space shuttle Endeavor in 1992
Thurgood Marshall was the first African American appointed to the
United States Supreme Court
Jack Johnson was the first African-American man to hold the World
Heavyweight Champion boxing title in 1908
Jazz, an African–American musical form born out of the blues, ragtime
and marching bands, originated in Louisiana during the turn of the
19th century
At a time when universities did not typically offer financial assistance
to black athletes, African-American football star Ernie Davis was offered
more than 50 scholarships
Josiah Henson fled slavery in Maryland in 1830 and later founded a settlement
in Ontario, Canada, for other black citizens who had escaped
Hall-of-Famer Jackie Robinson helped establish the African American-owned and
-controlled Freedom Bank
John Baxter Taylor was the first African American to win an Olympic gold medal
Alexa Canady became the first female African-American neurosurgeon in the
United States.
Cathay Williams was the first and only known female Buffalo Soldier during
the Civil War
Quincy Jones is the most Grammy-nominated artist in the history of the awards
with 76 nominations and 26 awards
Scientist and mathematician Benjamin Banneker is credited with helping to design
the blueprints for Washington, D.C.
George Monroe and William Robinson are thought to be two of the first African
Americans to work as Pony Express riders
Inventor of the three-way traffic signal, Garrett Morgan, became the first
African American to own a car in Cleveland, Ohio
Satchel Paige was the first African-American pitcher to be inducted into the
Baseball Hall of Fame
30 Facts for Black History Month
https://workplacediversity.com/articles/30-Facts-for-Black-History-Month
Workplace
Diversity
https://workplacediversity.com/articles
Black History Month
A Century of Black Life,
History and Culture
https://guides.lib.wayne.edu/c.php?g=174887&p=1354490
Black History Month:
Exploring African
American Heritage
https://www.doi.gov/photos/black-history-month-exploring-african-american-heritage-national-parks
Black History Month:
A
Medical Perspective
https://guides.mclibrary.duke.edu/blackhistorymonth
THE CONSPIRACY
AND HIDDEN IDENTITY
OF BLACKS IN THE BIBLE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhEvbWD5U1Q&feature=youtu.be
African American History:
Of Dreams
and Struggles
https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/summer-2016/african-american-history-of-dreams-and-struggles
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SECTION 3
BLACK HISTORY
AFRICAN AMERICAN
HISTORY
MONTH
LINKS
10 Little Known Black History Facts
http://www.pbs.org/black-culture/explore/10-black-history-little-known-facts/#.XFIAqxHsaZ8
14 Facts About Black History That You Might Not Know
https://explorethearchive.com/black-history-month-facts
18 Black History Facts You May Not Know
https://www.buzzfeed.com/dorieanstevenson/black-history-facts-theres-not-enough-time-to-learn
African-American Archaeology Newsletter
http://www.diaspora.uiuc.edu/newsletter.html
African American Archives, Manuscripts and Special Collections
http://guides.lib.udel.edu/content.php?pid=163619&hs=a
African American History
https://libwww.freelibrary.org/explore/topic/african-american-history
The African-American Mosaic
http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/african/afam001.html
African American Odyssey
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/aohome.html
African-American Perspectives
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/aap/aaphome.html
African American Web Directory
http://www.blacknews.com/directory/
African Studies Association (ASA)
http://www.africanstudies.org/
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AfriGeneas
http://www.afrigeneas.com/
AFRO
http://www.afro.com/
Association of African American Museums
https://blackmuseums.org/directory/
Black America Web
https://blackamericaweb.com/
Black Facts
http://www.blackfacts.com/
Black History Daily
http://blackhistorydaily.com/
Black History Facts
http://www.black-history-facts.com/
Black History Facts
https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/black-history-facts
Black History Facts
http://www.yenoba.com/
Black History Facts & Worksheets
https://kidskonnect.com/history/black-history/
Black History Month
http://www.youmanity.today/en/projects/stories-of-friendship-for-richer-for-poorer-.html
Black in time history
https://blackintimehistory.com/
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The Black Party Foundation
https://www.theblackpartyfoundation.org/
The Black Past
http://blackpast.org/
Cat-Hauling
https://wraabe.wordpress.com/2016/02/29/note-on-american-slavery-cat-hauling/
Cat-Hauling: Threats,
Punishments, and Slavery
https://wordsfrom.us/2015/09/cat-hauling-threats-punishments-and-slavery/
Do You Know These Black History Facts?
https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-02-19/do-you-know-these-black-history-facts
The Foundational Black American (FBA)
https://www.fbapowerplan.com/
Foundational Black Americans Grio
Preserving FBA Heritage and Culture
https://foundationalblackamericansgrio.com/
Guide to Black History
http://search.eb.com/blackhistory/
The History Place
http://www.historyplace.com/index.html
The Legal Defense Fund LDF
http://www.naacpldf.org/
Library of Congress Black History Month Website
http://www.africanamericanhistorymonth.gov/
Little Known Black History Fact
https://blackamericaweb.com/category/little-known-black-history-facts/
Little Known Facts About Black History
https://www.biography.com/news/little-known-facts-about-black-history-20730659
Melanet: The Uncut Black Experience
http://www.melanet.com/
Military History of African Americans and
African American/Black History Month
http://www.naavets.org/military-history-african-americans-african-americanblack-history-month/
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
http://www.naacp.org/
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The National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ)
https://nabjonline.org/
National Underground Railroad
http://www.nps.gov/subjects/ugrr/index.htm
National Urban League
http://www.nul.org/
On This Day In History
http://www.historynet.com/today-in-history
Project Third Eye Opened
https://projectthirdiopened.com/
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
http://www.nypl.org/locations/schomburg
This Day in Black History
http://cw39.com/2018/02/07/this-day-in-black-history-negro-history-week-was-founded/
This Day in Black History
https://www.bet.com/topics/t/this-day-in-black-history.html?_escaped_fragment_=
Three Facts from African-American History
You May Not Know—But Should
https://www.extension.harvard.edu/inside-extension/three-facts-african-american-history-you-may-not-know-should
Women of Black Wall Streeet
https://blackwallstreetwomen.com/
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Equal Justice Initiative
https://eji.org/
The Collective Black People Movement (CBPM)
http://cbpm.org/index.html
TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANE
https://kwekudee-tripdownmemorylane.blogspot.com/
A Gathering of Readers
https://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~gathread/index.html
Malawi Project
http://www.malawiproject.org/
Afro Kids
http://www.afrokids.com/
THE FREEMAN INSTITUTE
http://www.freemaninstitute.com/
Africa Resource
http://www.africaresource.com/
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Real History World Wide
http://www.realhistoryww.com/
History Facts/Science Facts - Quatr.us
http://quatr.us/
African-American Resources
http://www.ushistory.org/more/african-american.htm
African American Studies Library Research Guide
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~savega/aframer.htm
African Music Encyclopedia
http://africanmusic.org/
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AFROPEDEA
http://www.afropedia.org
World Afropedia
http://worldafropedia.com/afropedia/Main_Page
African Indigenous Science and Knowledge Systems
http://www.africahistory.net/
Natives Wiki
http://tribalspedia.wikia.com/wiki/Natives_Wiki
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Islamic Wiki
http://islam.wikia.com/
List of African mythological figures
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_African_mythological_figures
Minority Treaties
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minority_Treaties
Sexism
http://www.understandingprejudice.org/
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