Today is Ash Wednesday, the day after Fat Tuesday. We students are back into the grove of things after a long weekend. No more breaks until Spring Break :(. This week there is so much going on in the world: Mardi Gras, Super Tuesday, Tornadoes, and even Luckyday applications!!
Despite all of this February marks Black History Month. It originally started as "Negro History Week" in 1926 developed by Dr. Carter G. Woodson (pictured on left). And the theme for 2008 is "Carter G. Woodson and the Origins of Multiculturalism." The reason why he picked February is because both Fredrick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln's birthday is in this month.
Random Black History facts:
Did you know the first African American Senator was Hiram Revels representing Mississippi in 1870?
The first African American person to receive a bachelor's degree was Alexander Lucius Twilight in 1823 from Middlebury College.
I donate plasma every week. Well... The person who invented the method of extracting plasma from red blood cells in order to store blood (hence "blood banks") was Dr. Charles Drew in 1940.
Thats all the black history facts for today... Happy Ash Wednesday!!
2 comments:
1. I did know!
2. I didn't know.
3. I didn't know.
Obama! ;)
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