BHM: We Proclaim It

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BHM: We Proclaim It

By Dr. Karsonya Wise Whitehead

ASALH

National President

In the history of this country, in the ongoing fight against racial oppression, against a white supremacist narrative, and against the racial apartheid laws that were passed and upheld, there have always been gear-shifting moments when individual people have taken a stand.

In 1926, when Dr. Carter G. Woodson – the founder of the Association for the Study of African-American Life and History (ASALH), the son of formerly enslaved parents, a former sharecropper and miner, and the second Black person to receive a Ph.D.

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