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| Click on the image above to order the DVD, Reflections on Carter G. Woodson Dr. John Hope Franklin and Dr. Adelaide Cromwell discuss Woodson. The event was taped during a plenary session at the 2006 Annual Conference in Atlanta, GA. |
The election of Barack Obama as the first American
president of African descent will mark a watershed in
American history. Carter G. Woodson was fond of
quoting a nineteenth-century novelist who wrote that the
romance of America was the fate of the Negro. Neither
the founding fathers nor the African slaves could have
ever imagined a day when a black man would hold the
most exalted office in the nation.
A century ago, when a group of men and women—whites
and blacks, Jews and Gentiles—joined ranks and formed
the National Association for the Advancement of Colored
People, they were visionaries. In the abolitionist tradition,
carrying on the work of Frederick Douglass and Harriet
Tubman, of William Lloyd Garrison and Wendell Phillips,
they saw through a stormy sky of racial oppression and
despair. With African Americans being disenfranchised
and segregated, lynched and raped, uneducated or
miseducated, and everywhere casually maligned, the
NAACP lit a torch for equality and social justice.
Committed to struggle and armed with hope, the NAACP
constituted the vanguard in the movement for full
citizenship, and they continue to press the cause of
equality and social justice. As the grand ole civil rights
organization marks its centennial, the progress of black
citizenship cannot be better symbolized than by the
election of Barack Obama. O, what a century!
president of African descent will mark a watershed in
American history. Carter G. Woodson was fond of
quoting a nineteenth-century novelist who wrote that the
romance of America was the fate of the Negro. Neither
the founding fathers nor the African slaves could have
ever imagined a day when a black man would hold the
most exalted office in the nation.
A century ago, when a group of men and women—whites
and blacks, Jews and Gentiles—joined ranks and formed
the National Association for the Advancement of Colored
People, they were visionaries. In the abolitionist tradition,
carrying on the work of Frederick Douglass and Harriet
Tubman, of William Lloyd Garrison and Wendell Phillips,
they saw through a stormy sky of racial oppression and
despair. With African Americans being disenfranchised
and segregated, lynched and raped, uneducated or
miseducated, and everywhere casually maligned, the
NAACP lit a torch for equality and social justice.
Committed to struggle and armed with hope, the NAACP
constituted the vanguard in the movement for full
citizenship, and they continue to press the cause of
equality and social justice. As the grand ole civil rights
organization marks its centennial, the progress of black
citizenship cannot be better symbolized than by the
election of Barack Obama. O, what a century!
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| Barack Obama and the 2009 Black History Theme: Quest for Black Citizenship in the Americas |
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President Barack
Obama's
proclamation of
February 2009 as
National African
American History
Month!
President Barack
Obama's
proclamation of
February 2009 as
National African
American History
Month!
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