Black History Month Observance
Feb 20 2018, 11:30 am
Feb 20 2018, 11:30 am
The Story of how Black History Month began in 1915 when Carter G. Woodson, A Harvard trained historian alongside friends founded the Association for the study of Negro Life and History (ASNLH). A organization devoted to the research and promotion of accomplishments by Black Americans and people of African ancestry. Today this organization is recognized as the Association for the study of African American Life and History (ASALH).
Years later in 1926, the organization started sponsoring a National Negro History Week. THe second week of February was selected to encompass the birthdays of two great Americans who played a significant role in molding black history. These were Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass, whose birthdays are the 12th and the 14th respectively.
Throughout the decades that followed many mayors across the country began issuing annual proclamations acknowledging Negro History Week. Eventually by the later 1960's Negro History Week became Black History Month and then in 1976 president Gerald R. Ford formally recognized the observance. Since then every American president to follow has designated February as Black History Month and given the observance a specific theme. The Association for the Studay of African American Life and History has given 2018 the them of "African Americans in Times of War".
Family & MWR cordially invites the Parks RFTA community to our annual Black History Month Observance this upcoming February 20, 2018. The event will take palce at the Recreation Center Bldg. 521 beginning at 1130.
Entertainment: Spice Islander Drum Band
Guest Speaker: LTC. Antwine Williams-Smith
Food Sampling: Will Be Available
