Title: Black History Month

Description:

Americans have recognized black history annually since 1926, first as "Negro History Week" and later as "Black History Month." We owe the celebration of Black History Month to Dr. Carter G. Woodson. Born to parents who were former slaves, he spent his childhood working in the Kentucky coal mines and enrolled in high school at age twenty. He graduated within two years and later went on to earn a Ph.D. from Harvard.

Woodson, always one to act on his ambitions, decided to take on the challenge of writing black Americans into the nation's history. He established the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (now called the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History) in 1915, and a year later founded the widely respected Journal of Negro History. In 1926, he launched Negro History Week as an initiative to bring national attention to the contributions of black people throughout American history.

In recognition of Black History month we salute Palm Beach County Black Historians:
1  Dr. Esther Berry
2  Dr. B. Carleton Bryant (posthumously)
3  Everee Jimmerson Clarke
4  Irene Clay
5  Vera Farrington
6  Dorothy Gilbert
7  Tommie Gilbert
8  Dr. Effie Grear
9  Annie Pearl Hill
10 David Hill
11  Leola Holland
12  Ineria H. Hudnell
13 Ruth Lawson
14 Cartheda Mann
15 Thelma Pittman
16 C. Spencer Pompey (posthumously)
17 Harvey Poole, Sr.
18 Myrtle P. Rains
19 David Randolph
20 Mercedes Robinson
21 Getchrell Singleton
22 Preston Tillman
23 Elizabeth Wesley

24 Dr. Alice Moore

25 Jamesena P. Marshall

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For Additional Information, contact:

Ann Killets
akillets@palmbeach.k12.fl.us
Nat Harrington

Vickie Middlebrooks