BLACK HISTORY MONTH

Black History Month is celebrated in February in schools and communities in the United States.

Established as Negro History Week in the 1920s by Carter G. Woodson, February was chosen for the celebration because Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln were born in this month. Extended to a month-long celebration in 1976, Black History Month is an opportunity to emphasize the history and achievements of African Americans. - See more at: http://www.educationworld.com/a_special/black_history.shtml#sthash.tfle155f.dpuf

Established as Negro History Week in the 1920s by Carter G. Woodson, February was chosen for the celebration because Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln were born in this month. Extended to a month-long celebration in 1976, Black History Month is an opportunity to emphasize the history and achievements of African Americans. - See more at: http://www.educationworld.com/a_special/black_history.shtml#sthash.tfle155f.dpuf

It was established as a Negro History Week  in 1926 by Carter G. Woodson, a historian who wanted to ensure that important contributions made by African American men and women throught history would never be forgotten.

Two important birthdays helped organizers choose February as the time to celebrate African Americans. Two US leaders that helped African Americans gain equality, President Abraham Lincoln and human rights acitivist, Frederic Douglass.

 Extended to a  month- long celebration in 1976, Black History Month is an opportunity to emphasize the history and achievements of  African Americans.

This year, Bilingual Program students and teachers have decided that we would like to join this celebration integrating Black History in our classrooms.  So, with the help of our language assistant, Diana, we are doing different activities that will bring us closer to the African American history, from the terrible time of slavery until the present times.

In Technology class we focused on African American inventors or scientists. Diana told us the story  A Weed is a flower, about the  life of George Washington Carver, a scientist who worked with peanuts and helped Southern farmers.

Would you like to know which inventions have Afro American inventors shared with the world?
Go have a look ...

Established as Negro History Week in the 1920s by Carter G. Woodson, February was chosen for the celebration because Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln were born in this month. Extended to a month-long celebration in 1976, Black History Month is an opportunity to emphasize the history and achievements of African Americans. - See more at: http://www.educationworld.com/a_special/black_history.shtml#sthash.tfle155f.dpuf