The founder now has an ornament placed on the White House's Christmas tree every year in his name.
is a staple event in the national calendar – but how much do you know about who started it, and how it came to be?It’s marked in countries all around the world – albeit at different times of the year – in a whole host of ways.It looked at how “African Americans have resisted historic and ongoing oppression, in all forms, especially the racial terrorism of lynching, racial pogroms and police killings”.
After Woodson’s 1950 death, mayors around the country began to copy his revolutionary idea – but it wasn’t until the civil rights movement in the 1960s that the week began to develop into Black History Month. He said the States must “seize the opportunity to honour the too-often neglected accomplishments of Black Americans in every area of endeavour throughout our history.”Ghanaian-born Akyaaba Addai-Sebo, who worked at Greater London Council, first saw the campaigns for Black History Month during a 1975 trip to Washington DC.that he started to realise he had to change attitudes in Britain in the mid-1980s after a disturbing conversation with a colleague.
He soon realised that, amid the speeches, lectures and concerts planned, that significant historical Black anniversaries were coming up – prompting him to declare 1987-1988 an African Jubilee year.
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