What is the significance of black history month?
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This month is reserved in order to educate all people about balck history.  It is also to honor those black americans who paved the way for equality, inventions, and so forth in history.
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wow, what a good question, I hope people with interesting racial ideas about colonisation and the genocide of the native people go into more detail than I I have time for right now.\n\nwhy the holiday ... its a part of the story the country tells itself, to define itself.  every country has a "once upon a time, there was ...this place... and then some people came and did amazing things... and that's why we exist!" whatever, and down through the centuries, certain people who were real at some point get mythologized, like columbus and davy crockett.  these figures are always white european males, but that's how it goes.  \n\nbut its changing - we already have martin luther king day, so I have hope for a better story for the future...
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they do have significance.sometimes they give a prenotion about future.do check out more here.
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It is important to understand history and to know how people like Dr. King impacted it.  Whether or not you observe his birthday is not of great consequence, but it gives people a sense of hope and pride to celebrate a person who had such a positive influence on the world.\n\nI have no problem at all with his birthday being a national holiday, as I think he contributed to this country in a very unique and substantial way.  But there are plenty of ways of celebrating a person besides making a holiday for him.  Just because a person doesn't actively celebrate Martin Luther King's birthday doesn't mean that person doesn't understand who he was or what he did.\n\nThink of it this way.  Do you celebrate the birthday of every great person who ever lived?
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Black history will never be over, the month has ended but we are creating our history right now, everything you do will be part of black history so represent yourself and your culture well.
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William Edward Burghardt DuBois, to his admirers, was by spirited devotion and scholarly dedication, an attacker of injustice and a defender of freedom.\n\nA harbinger of Black nationalism and Pan-Africanism, he died in self-imposed exile in his home away from home with his ancestors of a glorious past—Africa.\n\nLabeled as a "radical," he was ignored by those who hoped that his massive contributions would be buried along side of him. But, as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote, "history cannot ignore W.E.B. DuBois because history has to reflect truth and Dr. DuBois was a tireless explorer and a gifted discoverer of social truths. His singular greatness lay in his quest for truth about his own people. There were very few scholars who concerned themselves with honest study of the black man and he sought to fill this immense void. The degree to which he succeeded disclosed the great dimensions of the man."
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What do you want to know :\n-number\n-origin\n-history\n-what people do that day
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MLK Day.  Why would we name a holiday after Jefferson Davis, the president of a country that no longer exists?
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veterans day honers the living who fought in wars / Conflicts\nMemorial day is memory of those who died.
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It was important because it was one of the factors that led to the American Revolution. The American delegates at Pennsylvania came up with the Dec. of Independence to show how they had suffered under British rule, and how they planned to use freedom.\n\nThe Dec. of Indpendence was kind of a guiding light to the soldiers and other citizens of US. It always had colonists thinking of what lie ahead - freedom.
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I am white, male, and yes, I accept Black History month as a time to reflect on our freedoms we ALL have thanks to brave men and women AND children. Because let us remember Martin Luther King, John F Kennedy and Robert Kennedy all were assasinated in the same decade of the 60's-different races-but all three supported Civil Rights!!! So BHM is for all of us to remember...freedom to speak your mind is a GOD GIVEN RIGHT-and HE is "colorblind"--thank you and peace,love and honor to you...
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it is a holiday that celebrated by women on march 8. its to recognize and appreciate women kinda like mothers day only mothers day is just for mothers but ziua femeii is for all women\n\nyoure welcome
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the black moses because she led so many people to freedom risking her own life on the underground railroad. just confirming what the other said and givin some backround info
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Juneteenth is the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States.\n\nSee website in sources......
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The Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. , often called Martin Luther King Day, is a United States holiday honoring the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., observed on the third Monday of January each year, around the time of King's birthday, January 15. It is the only United States federal holiday commemorating an African-American.\n\nThe holiday was the result of a large-scale campaign headed by a number of activists. One of the most notable of these was musician Stevie Wonder, who released the single "Happy Birthday" to popularize the campaign in 1980 and hosted the Rally for Peace Press Conference in 1981.\n\nOpposition to the Bill was led by Sen. Jesse Helms who questioned whether King was important enough to receive such an honor. He was also critical of King's opposition to the Vietnam War and alleged Communist connections.\n\nAt the White House Rose Garden on November 2, 1983, U.S. President Ronald Reagan signed a bill creating a federal holiday to honor King. It was observed for the first time on January 20, 1986.\n\nOn January 18, 1999, for the first time, Martin Luther King Day was officially observed in all fifty U.S. states. The day is marked by demonstrations for peace, social justice and racial and class equality, as well as a national day of volunteer community service.\n\nOn January 16, 2006, Greenville County, South Carolina, was the last county in the U.S. to officially adopt Martin Luther King Day as a paid holiday.
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I think others may have taken a different inference from your question as if you asked "SHOULD we have black history month?" and that's not what you asked.\n\nI'm a caucasian american and I guess it's always felt funny to me that there was a need for a black history month. Why wasn't Black history included with the rest of world history? I mean now that the seperation of the races had become an antiquated notion, though still regionally practiced, couldn't we have more flushed out history books, one's that dealt with the developing history of all races?\n\nOkay well that hasn't happened, except more recent history does include more people of color. And therefore to cover the history that hasn't been covered, they add this special month of learning about things we may not learn at home or in another course at school. I for one am glad for the experience.\n\nI really couldn't say how it makes anyone else feel.\n\nThough I will say in a strange way sometimes it seems to emphasize the continued seperation between the races. We are all one humanity and the seperation is really idiotic, still it lingers. Is part of the problem that making a point of being proud of your skin color (no matter which group is doing it), tends to highlight the superficial differences between us.\nI think it would be better if the focus was on cultural history instead of skin color history.
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Talk about history, what it represents, and what it means to you.