Why was black history month choosen to be in February?
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It was initially proposed as Black History week, by Doctor Carter G. Woodson in 1926. and placed in February in honor of the birthdays of two men who helped influnce the shaping of black history: Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln.  It was later expanded to include the whole month.
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February needed a holiday.
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Being born on February 29 is the same thing as being born on the day after February 28, which is usually March 1. But some people prefer to celebrate on Feb. 28; it's just a matter of personal preference.
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Why do so many people want to take away black history month. This goes all the way back to the slave master days when they made it the sole job to erase all of our history, our culture, names, language and most of all our identity and nationality. So that we as a people will forget who we are and were we come from, then replace it with new history there history. \n\nIn 1832 a U.S. Senator named Henry Berry said to the Virginia house of Delegates: "We have as far as possible closed every avenue by which the truth may enter the slave's mind. If we could extinguish the capacity to see the truth, our work would be complete. They would then be on the level with the beast of the field". \n\nWillie Lynch said:\nOur experts warned us about the possibility of this phenomenon occurring, for they say that the mind has a strong drive to correct and recorrect itself over a period of time if it can touch some substantial original historical base and they advise us that the best way to deal with this phenomenon is to shave off the brutes mental history and create a multiplicity of phenomena of illusions, so that each illusion will twirl in its own orbit, something similar to floating balls in a vacuum.\n\nZechariah 11: 4 - 5,\n\nTHUS SAID The Lord; FEED THE FLOCK OF THE SLAUGHTER;\n\n(5) WHOSE POSSESSORS KILL THEM, AND HOLD THEMSELVES NOT GUILTY: AND THEY THAT SELL THEM SAY, BLESSED BE The Lord; FOR I AM RICH: AND THEIR OWN SHEPHERDS PITY THEM NOT.\n\nIn a book by Professor Andrew Hacker entitled Two Nations, Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal, on page 4, he says:\n\n"Most whites will protest that they bear neither responsibility nor blame for the conditions Blacks face. Neither they nor their for bearers ever owned slaves nor can they see themselves as having held anyone back or down." Today the younger generations of Whites resent being held morally or financially responsible for the racial sins of their ancestors, even though as whites, they still enjoy the inherited advantages and privileges of slavery."
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No...Black History month isnt a month of worshiping black people.  Nore is it a month of havning blacks treated like royal kings and queens.  It is a month of remembering (from the past) all the blacks (african americans) that suffered through verious events that happened in our country.  They had to go through a lot, and a lot of pain.  Now, im not insulting you or black people, so dont get all crazy and stand up and curse my avatar.  I respect what african americans had to go through, espesially after watching that Missisipi Burning movie.  anyways, this reminded me of just a few weeks ago,  this black girl in my history class was complaining how she was mad that black history month is in Feb, which is the shortest month of the year.  That just pissed me off.  She is basicly saying that she wants to be treated like a king.  and blacks are above everyone.  And she wen on saying how whites think there better than everyone.  and thats not true.  i dont think im better than any black person.  the reason whites dont have a history month is because they didnt really go through a age where they suffered.   You know what im trying to say.   We are all equal.  and im just stating my opinion.\n\nAlso, its not manditory, if people dont want to celebrate it, you dont have to.  but its there for people that want to.
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Singling people out no matter what the race, creed or color is wrong. I'm disappointed to hear that this happened especially on the elementary school level. It perhaps sent out a message, but one we are trying to avoid. As my school prepared for a MLK Day celebration one elequent speaker came to our school and said the following:\n\n(Yes, I'm paraphrasing)\n\n "In our day and age, I feel that sometimes people of my own race are bringing judgements upon themselves unnecessarily. They preach of equality, but when given the rights, want more. Yes, we cannot deny the treatment of Blacks was unacceptable. But must we dwell on the past instead of embracing the future? If we seek equality, why do we draw attention upon ourselves? Why have a "Black History Month?" Is there a "White History Month?" We are asking not to be set "a part." Yes we insist on our own month to celebrate our fine figures from the past? Shouldn't EVERY day of every month be a celebration of what these fine people did? We should live by their words, not force their word."\n\nI think what the world needs is to accept that we are more open-minded than we were 30-40 years ago. Sure, we have pockets of our population that will never be. But the change has been immense. Thank God! This speakers words spoken so elequently made so much sense to all those in that room that day. I think it brought the school together with a "sigh" of relief. All races realized we were working together.....no one is set apart. There is no need to favor a soul in our world today. We all prove who we are by being.....who we are. \n\nThank you for sharing the poem. My hope is that schools such as this, ideals such as this, practices such as this will so very soon be a thing of the distant past.
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February the Second. <3
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Per Wikipedia:\n\n Augustus is alleged to have removed one day from February and added it to August, (renamed from Sextilis to honor himself), so that Julius Caesar's July would not contain more days.
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Jan 20th.  Used to be in March, but that made for too long of a lame duck session if the previous Pres. wasn't re-elected, so they changed it to Jan.
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Yes on February 28th. I've never thought about that before.
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Most likely for the same reason that black government workers enjoy taking the day off for the Confederate Memorial Day (offered in GA) and white government workers enjoy taking MLK Jr. Day off.  They don't celebrate the traditional holiday itself, they just enjoy the holiday time off of work.
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July is named after Julius Caesar and gave it 31 days.  It was originally the fifth month of the year.  Per Wikipedia.org: "July was renamed for Julius Caesar, who was born in that month. Previously, it was called Quintilis in Latin, since it was the fifth month in the Roman calendar which started in March. Because of its origin, until the 18th century this month's name was pronounced the same way as the name "Julie"."\n\nAugustus took a day from February so August was the same length as July.  Per Wikipedia.org: "August was named in honor of Augustus. The month reputedly has 31 days because Augustus wanted as many days as Julius Caesar's July. Augustus placed the month where it is because that is when Cleopatra died. Before Augustus renamed August, it was called Sextilis in Latin, since it was the sixth month in the Roman calendar which started in March."
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Wasnt March like 2 months ago?
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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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The roman ceasars Julius and then Augustus took days from february (an unimportant month to them) and added them to july and august which were named after them to make "their" months more important by having 31 days instead of 30
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Lets see, because 85%, I'm being nice, of the US History taught in schools is based on the European conquest of the country.  So since "White male history" is what we see the most of, one month out of the year they throw a bone to the Blacks, Women and Hispanics by giving them a showcase month.  Of course what gets left off are the contributions made by Asians, Middle Easterners and well, most of the minorities.  Go figure.
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July was named for Julius Ceasar, when Augustus Ceasar named August for himself it would not do for July to have more days in it than his month of August so he took from February to equal out the days.  This is only a legend, however there must be some truth to something like this as a calender year with 13 months each having 4 weeks, for a total of  28 days would make sense with all things being equal.  There had to be some ego on the line for this one!