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Founders of Black History Month
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| Click on the image above to order the DVD, Reflections on Carter G. Woodson |
The election of Barack Obama as the first American
president of African descent will mark a watershed in
American history. Carter G. Woodson was fond of
quoting a nineteenth-century novelist who wrote that the
romance of America was the fate of the Negro. Neither
the founding fathers nor the African slaves could have
ever imagined a day when a black man would hold the
most exalted office in the nation.
A century ago, when a group of men and women—
whites and blacks, Jews and Gentiles—joined ranks and
formed the National Association for the Advancement of
Colored People, they were visionaries. In the abolitionist
tradition, carrying on the work of Frederick Douglass and
Harriet Tubman, of William Lloyd Garrison and Wendell
Phillips, they saw through a stormy sky of racial
oppression and despair. With African Americans being
disenfranchised and segregated, lynched and raped,
uneducated or miseducated, and everywhere casually
maligned, the NAACP lit a torch for equality and social
justice. Committed to struggle and armed with hope, the
NAACP constituted the vanguard in the movement for full
citizenship, and they continue to press the cause of
equality and social justice. As the grand ole civil rights
organization marks its centennial, the progress of black
citizenship cannot be better symbolized than by the
election of Barack Obama. O, what a century!
president of African descent will mark a watershed in
American history. Carter G. Woodson was fond of
quoting a nineteenth-century novelist who wrote that the
romance of America was the fate of the Negro. Neither
the founding fathers nor the African slaves could have
ever imagined a day when a black man would hold the
most exalted office in the nation.
A century ago, when a group of men and women—
whites and blacks, Jews and Gentiles—joined ranks and
formed the National Association for the Advancement of
Colored People, they were visionaries. In the abolitionist
tradition, carrying on the work of Frederick Douglass and
Harriet Tubman, of William Lloyd Garrison and Wendell
Phillips, they saw through a stormy sky of racial
oppression and despair. With African Americans being
disenfranchised and segregated, lynched and raped,
uneducated or miseducated, and everywhere casually
maligned, the NAACP lit a torch for equality and social
justice. Committed to struggle and armed with hope, the
NAACP constituted the vanguard in the movement for full
citizenship, and they continue to press the cause of
equality and social justice. As the grand ole civil rights
organization marks its centennial, the progress of black
citizenship cannot be better symbolized than by the
election of Barack Obama. O, what a century!
| Journal of African American History Visit the JAAH Website for complete information on subscriptions and submissions. |
| Get a free copy of Freedom's Song, an educational DVD from ASALH and Farmers Insurance, by clicking on the image above! |
| Click here to view photos from the 2008 Black History Month Luncheon! |
| Discover your roots... African Ancestry DNA Kit Contest Courtesy of your Dodge, Chrysler, Jeep Dealer |
| Congratulations to our winner, Joyce Morton! View pictures from the event by clicking here. |
| Don't Miss Out on the Limited Lost Manuscript Edition! Lost for over eighty years, Carter G. Woodson's Appeal is now available as a limited edition! Only 2000 copies are available, so click here to find out how to get your leather-bound, autographed, and individually-numbered special edition! |
| Thanks for a Great Conference! Thanks to those of you who supported the 2008 Conference. It was one of our best ever. Pctures will be posted over the next couple of weeks. |
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| Barack Obama and the 2009 Black History Theme: Quest for Black Citizenship in the Americas |