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Article: We all can learn from Black History Month
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- February 2, 1989
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When properly employed, our annual observance of Black History
Month can become a powerful educative and liberating force for all
Americans overwhelmed by the fact of being hemmed in and excluded.
There is a positive, encouraging and, indeed, inspiring content to
the revelation of the unpublicized story of the achievements of
African Americans who stood tall in a society that insisted they walk
humbly with bowed heads and with knees always ready to buckle.
Any American of any race who reads the autobiographies of
ex-slaves, such as Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman and Sojourner
Truth, will never be the same. Their life stories are good medicine
for all who feel depressed and ...