https://padlet.com/karon_johnson/m3xhmbauz7xo54gh Made with a taste for adventure en-us 2021-01-29 14:45:31 UTC 2025-09-30 15:16:20 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/karon_johnson/m3xhmbauz7xo54gh/wish/1140982873 I want to know why Black History? ]]> 2021-01-29 15:11:50 UTC https://padlet.com/karon_johnson/m3xhmbauz7xo54gh/wish/1140982873 https://padlet.com/karon_johnson/m3xhmbauz7xo54gh/wish/1141011593 it's a remembering of important  people and events in the history of the African diaspora. ]]> 2021-01-29 15:17:20 UTC https://padlet.com/karon_johnson/m3xhmbauz7xo54gh/wish/1141011593 https://padlet.com/karon_johnson/m3xhmbauz7xo54gh/wish/1141023171 Black history month is also called African-American History Month. ]]> 2021-01-29 15:19:37 UTC https://padlet.com/karon_johnson/m3xhmbauz7xo54gh/wish/1141023171 https://padlet.com/karon_johnson/m3xhmbauz7xo54gh/wish/1141037918 This month was chosen because The week was symbolic in that it was the same week of the birthdays of former President Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass, an escaped slave and prominent abolitionist movement activist.]]> 2021-01-29 15:22:33 UTC https://padlet.com/karon_johnson/m3xhmbauz7xo54gh/wish/1141037918 https://padlet.com/karon_johnson/m3xhmbauz7xo54gh/wish/1141043801 2021-01-29 15:23:36 UTC https://padlet.com/karon_johnson/m3xhmbauz7xo54gh/wish/1141043801 https://padlet.com/karon_johnson/m3xhmbauz7xo54gh/wish/1141046138 2021-01-29 15:24:00 UTC https://padlet.com/karon_johnson/m3xhmbauz7xo54gh/wish/1141046138 https://padlet.com/karon_johnson/m3xhmbauz7xo54gh/wish/1153916496 2021-02-02 14:44:56 UTC https://padlet.com/karon_johnson/m3xhmbauz7xo54gh/wish/1153916496 https://padlet.com/karon_johnson/m3xhmbauz7xo54gh/wish/1153931737 In 1926, Woodson developed Negro History Week. He believed "the achievements of the Negro properly set forth will crown him as a factor in early human progress and a maker of modern civilization." Then in 1976, Negro History Week expanded into Black History Month.]]> 2021-02-02 14:47:28 UTC https://padlet.com/karon_johnson/m3xhmbauz7xo54gh/wish/1153931737 https://padlet.com/karon_johnson/m3xhmbauz7xo54gh/wish/1153941404 Woodson chose the second week of February for his celebration because it marks the birthdays of two men who greatly influenced the black American population.]]> 2021-02-02 14:48:58 UTC https://padlet.com/karon_johnson/m3xhmbauz7xo54gh/wish/1153941404 https://padlet.com/karon_johnson/m3xhmbauz7xo54gh/wish/1153946231 Why this month? ]]> 2021-02-02 14:49:44 UTC https://padlet.com/karon_johnson/m3xhmbauz7xo54gh/wish/1153946231 https://padlet.com/karon_johnson/m3xhmbauz7xo54gh/wish/1153946881 What are the backgrounds?]]> 2021-02-02 14:49:51 UTC https://padlet.com/karon_johnson/m3xhmbauz7xo54gh/wish/1153946881 https://padlet.com/karon_johnson/m3xhmbauz7xo54gh/wish/1153953798

Frederick Douglass, who escaped slavery and became an abolitionist and civil rights leader; though his birthdate isn't known, he celebrated it on February 14.

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• President Abraham Lincoln, who signed the Emancipation Proclamation, which abolished slavery in America's confederate states; he was born on February 12.

]]> 2021-02-02 14:51:32 UTC https://padlet.com/karon_johnson/m3xhmbauz7xo54gh/wish/1153957747 https://padlet.com/karon_johnson/m3xhmbauz7xo54gh/wish/1154144156 By the time of Woodson's death in 1950, Negro History Week had become a central part of African American life and substantial progress had been made in bringing more Americans to appreciate the celebration. At mid–century, mayors of cities nationwide issued proclamations noting Negro History Week. ]]> 2021-02-02 15:21:15 UTC https://padlet.com/karon_johnson/m3xhmbauz7xo54gh/wish/1154144156 https://padlet.com/karon_johnson/m3xhmbauz7xo54gh/wish/1154145937 2021-02-02 15:21:32 UTC https://padlet.com/karon_johnson/m3xhmbauz7xo54gh/wish/1154145937 https://padlet.com/karon_johnson/m3xhmbauz7xo54gh/wish/1154150367 https://asalh.org/about-us/origins-of-black-history-month/]]> 2021-02-02 15:22:09 UTC https://padlet.com/karon_johnson/m3xhmbauz7xo54gh/wish/1154150367 https://padlet.com/karon_johnson/m3xhmbauz7xo54gh/wish/1154165839 Like most ideas that resonate with the spirit of the times, Negro History Week proved to be more dynamic than Woodson or the Association could control. By the 1930s, Woodson complained about the intellectual charlatans, black and white, popping up everywhere seeking to take advantage of the public interest in black history. ]]> 2021-02-02 15:24:32 UTC https://padlet.com/karon_johnson/m3xhmbauz7xo54gh/wish/1154165839 https://padlet.com/karon_johnson/m3xhmbauz7xo54gh/wish/1154169591 Woodson chose February for reasons of tradition and reform. It is commonly said that Woodson selected February to encompass the birthdays of two great Americans who played a prominent role in shaping black history, namely Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass, whose birthdays are the 12th and the 14th, respectively.]]> 2021-02-02 15:25:06 UTC https://padlet.com/karon_johnson/m3xhmbauz7xo54gh/wish/1154169591 https://padlet.com/karon_johnson/m3xhmbauz7xo54gh/wish/1154176047 In 1937, at the urging of Mary McLeod Bethune, Woodson established the Negro History Bulletin, which focused on the annual theme. ]]> 2021-02-02 15:26:04 UTC https://padlet.com/karon_johnson/m3xhmbauz7xo54gh/wish/1154176047 https://padlet.com/karon_johnson/m3xhmbauz7xo54gh/wish/1154182587 In the 1940s, efforts began slowly within the black community to expand the study of black history in the schools and black history celebrations before the public. ]]> 2021-02-02 15:27:06 UTC https://padlet.com/karon_johnson/m3xhmbauz7xo54gh/wish/1154182587 https://padlet.com/karon_johnson/m3xhmbauz7xo54gh/wish/1154186398 The Negro History movement was an intellectual insurgency that was part of every larger effort to transform race relations.]]> 2021-02-02 15:27:43 UTC https://padlet.com/karon_johnson/m3xhmbauz7xo54gh/wish/1154186398 https://padlet.com/karon_johnson/m3xhmbauz7xo54gh/wish/1154196453 2021-02-02 15:29:15 UTC https://padlet.com/karon_johnson/m3xhmbauz7xo54gh/wish/1154196453 karon_johnson https://padlet.com/karon_johnson/m3xhmbauz7xo54gh/wish/1169208967 To assist with making sure your facts are specific, include dates, years, names and locations. If you're using a quote make sure you have used quotation marks


What were the names of those two men?

Do we know when he escaped slavery. February 14th , the year?

What is the Emancipation Proclamation? 

]]> 2021-02-05 17:01:07 UTC https://padlet.com/karon_johnson/m3xhmbauz7xo54gh/wish/1169208967 https://padlet.com/karon_johnson/m3xhmbauz7xo54gh/wish/1187594366 Frederick Douglass escaped from slavery on September 3, 1838]]> 2021-02-10 14:35:25 UTC https://padlet.com/karon_johnson/m3xhmbauz7xo54gh/wish/1187594366 https://padlet.com/karon_johnson/m3xhmbauz7xo54gh/wish/1187602803 The name of the two men who greatly influenced the black American Population were Fredrick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln]]> 2021-02-10 14:36:52 UTC https://padlet.com/karon_johnson/m3xhmbauz7xo54gh/wish/1187602803 https://padlet.com/karon_johnson/m3xhmbauz7xo54gh/wish/1187617850 President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."]]> 2021-02-10 14:39:27 UTC https://padlet.com/karon_johnson/m3xhmbauz7xo54gh/wish/1187617850 https://padlet.com/karon_johnson/m3xhmbauz7xo54gh/wish/1187621626 2021-02-10 14:40:08 UTC https://padlet.com/karon_johnson/m3xhmbauz7xo54gh/wish/1187621626 https://padlet.com/karon_johnson/m3xhmbauz7xo54gh/wish/1187625842 2021-02-10 14:40:52 UTC https://padlet.com/karon_johnson/m3xhmbauz7xo54gh/wish/1187625842