Black History Month

Favorite 20 Black History Month Quotations 1. I am America. I am the part you won’t recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me. – Muhammad Ali The Greatest (1975) 2. Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I [...]

Black History Month Quotes Quicklist 1. I am America. I am the part you won’t recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me. – Muhammad Ali The Greatest (1975) 2. Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am [...]

African Americans… This website is dedicated to all things for and about the African American Diaspora. African American Archives, Manuscripts and Special Collections… African American Studies subject guide including respositories, collections in several repositories and single repositories, and individual collections. African American History… Annotated list of links to web sites covering African American history. African [...]

A quick look at some African American firsts accomplishments: 783 James Derham, born a slave in Philadelphia in 1762, becomes the first black physician in the United States. 1826 The first black college graduate, John Russwurm, receives his degree from Bowdoin College in Maine in 1826. 1834 First black to obtain a patent from the [...]

We should emphasize not Negro History, but the Negro in history. What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice. – Dr. Carter G. Woodson on the founding Negro History Week, 1926 When Carter G. Woodson started [...]