Professional Documents
Culture Documents
February 2021
The History
Black person is described as "of or
What Black Musician wrote this song or African world other than Africa may not identify
What do you know about the African American factions of people may still consider
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Timeline: 1600s - 1800s
Resource Diversity.UCSC.edu
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Timeline: 1900s
NAACP is founded 1909
George Washington Carver’s
1914 agricultural research begins to revive
Historian Carter G. Woodson and minister
Southern farming
Jesse Moorland founded the Association
1915
for the Study of African-American Life and
History; their work is the impetus BHM
1924 Harlem Renaissance begins
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Timeline: 2000s
Colin Powell became the first
2001 African American U.S. Secretary
Oprah Winfrey becomes first of State
African American Female 2003
billionaire
Condoleezza Rice becomes first
2005 African American Woman
Secretary of State
Barack Obama becomes the first 2008
Black president of the United States
Disney officially crowns its first
2009
1924 African-American Disney
Former Maryland Lt. Governor Princess, Tiana
Michael Steele is the first African
American Chairman of the RNC 2010 Shooting of Trayvon Martin by George
Zimmerman in Sanford, Florida
Barack Obama is awarded the
2008
Black Lives Matter movement begins
Nobel Peace Prize
2012 as a response to the ongoing racial
1950 profiling and police brutality against
young black men
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Women and Black History Month
Women Suffragists
Tensions between abolitionists and women’s suffragists first surfaced in the aftermath
of the Civil War. Simultaneously, black disfranchisement laws in the late nineteenth
and early twentieth centuries undermined the guarantees in the Fourteenth and
Fifteenth Amendments for the great majority of southern blacks until the Voting Rights
Act of 1965.
Black suffragists' important contribution occurred within the larger women’s movement
and the larger black voting rights movement. Through voting-rights campaigns and legal
suits from the turn of the twentieth century to the mid-1960s, African Americans made
their voices heard as to the importance of the vote. Indeed the fight for black voting
rights continues in the courts today. The year 2020 marks the 100th anniversary of the
passage of the 19th Amendment, which guarantees and protects women's' constitutional
Henrietta Lacks Henrietta Lacks (Aug 1, 1920 - Oct 4, 1951) visited The Johns
Lacks' cancer cells were biopsied and sent to Dr. George Gey's
nearby tissue lab. Dr. Gey, a prominent cancer and virus researcher, collected cells from
all patients who came to The Johns Hopkins Hospital with cervical cancer. The sample
quickly died in his lab, but he discovered that Mrs. Lacks’ cells doubled every 20 to 24
hours.
Today a biopsy of this kind would not be permitted without consent from the family.
Today, these incredible cells— nicknamed "HeLa" cells, from the first two letters of her
first and last names — are used to study the effects of toxins, drugs, hormones, and
Unfortunately, Henrietta Lacks died at the age of 31, but the HeLa cell line continues to
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was born in Atlanta,
Americans' equality.
King was shot and killed while in Memphis, TN. to keep moving forward. ”
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Black Leaders of Today
Alicia Garza, Opal Tometi, Patrisse Cullors: Black Lives Matter Movement Founders
In 2013, #BlackLivesMatter, a Black-centered political will, and movement building project
was co-founded by Alicia Garza, Opal Tometi, and Patrisse Cullors, in response to the
women all over the world have used to share their sexual abuse stories, bringing down
income residents of New York. Member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and gave a TEDTalk
runs the Center for Law and Social Justice at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn, providing
legal services to people facing voter suppression and discrimination. Resource: USA Today
struggles as a child in Alabama and her suicide attempt. She has overcome many obstacles
brutality against black Americans. Helped found Ella Baker Center for Human Rights and
for a major party in the United States. Launched Fair Fight 2020 and other organizations
devoted to voting rights, training, and hiring young people of color. Resource: Fair Fight
Project 100 works with young Black activists to create a national base of Black 18-35-year-
olds dedicated to creating justice and freedom for all Black people. Resource: envatotuts+
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Famous African Americans With Disabilities
Resource: Good Neighbor.com
19th century.
He learned to play by ear and began composing by age five, and later
dyslexia, but during his time at school, the disorder was widely
or attention impairments.
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Famous African Americans
Resources
6ABC.com PBS
Oprah Magazine
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Meeting Discussion Topics & Question Starters
TOPIC: Reframing Black History Month to #BlackFutureMonth
One hundred years after the founding of the Association for the Study of African
American Life and History, black millennials are reframing Woodson’s idea from
highlighting black history to highlighting black futures. Black Future Month focuses on
black people’s dreams, breaking open how black people are envisioned in the futures
we are creating.
Discussion Questions:
What do you see as the differences between these two perspectives?
How do you feel about changing the focus on this important awareness month?
scholar, educator, and publisher. It became a month-long celebration in 1976. The month
of February was chosen to coincide with the birthdays of Frederick Douglass and
Abraham Lincoln.
Discussion Questions:
What would happen if Black History Month didn't exist?
How do the dimensions of your diversity connect you with Black History Month?
What do you find the most meaningful about Black History Month?
Break the group into small teams and let them take 15 minutes to brainstorm
As a group, discuss the ideas and identify 2-3 that the group agrees and ask for
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Ideas for Celebrating Black History Month
Activities for Adults and ERGs
Black History Month Quiz
ERG Ideas:
Celebrating Black History Month
Books to Explore
His Truth is Marching On LGBTQ Authors
Library of Congress
23 Places to Visit
Learning Lab
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Black History Month
February 2021
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