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Article: Celebration or Placebo? The annual focus on African-American heritage generates questions about Black History Month observances.(Cover Story)
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- Diverse Issues in Higher Education
- Article date:
- February 23, 2006
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Dr. Carter G. Woodson initiated Negro History Week in 1926 as a way to highlight the almost universally ignored contributions and history of people of African descent.
"I HATE BLACK HISTORY MONTH." SUCH READS THE TITLE OF A 2001 ESSAY POSTED ON WWW.EPINIONS.COM THE AUTHOR IMMEDIATELY ATTEMPTS TO ASSURE READERS THAT THIS IS NOT RACIST SENTIMENT. ON THE CONTRARY, THE WRITER INSISTS, THE ISSUE IS THAT BLACK HISTORY MONTH IS RELEGATED TO THE SHORTEST MONTH OF THE YEAR. AND ONCE THAT MONTH IS OVER, BLACK HISTORY GENERALLY DISAPPEARS FROM EDUCATIONAL AGENDAS. THE AUTHOR ALSO ADMITS THAT THE AIMS OF DR. CARTER G. WOODSON, THE SECOND AFRICAN-AMERICAN TO GRADUATE FROM ...