Theme 2019: Black Migrations
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Black Population Growth in America
What is Black History Month?
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Power of the Black Experience in the Classroom |
Video:
Kids Explain Black History Month |
Video: Bloody Sunday
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PSA: United Negro College Fund (1975)
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Brown vs. Board of Education
"The Problem We All Live With"
Ruby Bridges became famous in 1960 as the six-year-old who, escorted by federal marshals, integrated a formerly all-white school in New Orleans.
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"The Problem We All Live With" - Norman Rockwell Painting at the White House (TV-14; 01:37) Ruby Bridges visited President Barack Obama to see Norman Rockwell's painting hanging outside of the Oval Office. The painting depicts her walk to school on the day of school integration in New Orleans. Video courtesy of the White House.
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Famous African-Americans from Florida
African-American Stereotypes
The stock characters of blackface minstrelsy have played a significant role in disseminating racist images, attitudes and perceptions worldwide. Every immigrant group was stereotyped on the music hall stage during the 19th Century, but the history of prejudice, hostility, and ignorance towards black people has insured a unique longevity to the stereotypes. White America's conceptions of Black entertainers were shaped by minstrelsy's mocking caricatures and for over one hundred years the belief that Blacks were racially and socially inferior was fostered by legions of both white and black performers in blackface.
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- Black History Month Contests -
Essay Contest
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Poster Contest
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