{"id":7678,"date":"2017-02-01T23:19:27","date_gmt":"2017-02-02T05:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onlegalgrounds.law.memphis.edu\/wordpress\/?p=7678"},"modified":"2017-02-02T14:32:00","modified_gmt":"2017-02-02T20:32:00","slug":"national-african-american-history-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/national-african-american-history-month\/","title":{"rendered":"National African American History Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center\">FEBRUARY IS NATIONAL AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY MONTH<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/?attachment_id=7679\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7679\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-7679\" src=\"http:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/african-american-history-month-clip-art-SWorsc-clipart.png\" alt=\"african-american-history-month-clip-art-SWorsc-clipart\" width=\"503\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/african-american-history-month-clip-art-SWorsc-clipart.png 900w, https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/african-american-history-month-clip-art-SWorsc-clipart-300x191.png 300w, https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/african-american-history-month-clip-art-SWorsc-clipart-768x488.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 503px) 100vw, 503px\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">February is officially recognized as <strong>National African American History Month<\/strong>, also known as <strong>Black History Month<\/strong>.\u00a0 This celebration of the contributions of African Americans to the American story and civilization began in February 1926 with Dr. Carter G. Woodson\u2019s Negro History Week to coincide with the birthdays of Frederick Douglas and Abraham Lincoln.\u00a0 In 1976, Gerald Ford became the first U.S. President to recognize the entire month of February as Black History Month.\u00a0 President Ford urged Americans to \u201cseize the opportunity to honor the too-often neglected accomplishment of black Americans in every area of endeavor throughout our history.\u201d\u00a0Every U.S. President, since Gerald Ford has issued a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the-press-office\/2017\/02\/02\/president-donald-j-trump-proclaims-february-national-african-american\">presidential proclamation<\/a> officially recognizing this commemorative month.<\/p>\n<p>The history of African Americans can not be detailed in one month.\u00a0 African American history spans a distance well beyond recorded history.\u00a0 It traces its roots to soil beyond the shores of the United States, and began thousands of years before slavery, Black Codes, Jim Crow, Segregation and other systemic injustices.\u00a0 It is a history not set apart from world history but interwoven.\u00a0 It is not just a history of overcoming, it is a history of great accomplishments in ever academic field, artistic endeavor, and athletic pursuit.\u00a0 It is a history that details the human condition and the story of mankind, both in triumph and in failure.<\/p>\n<p>Within that history are well known, as well as little known, African American attorneys who have impacted lives, changed communities, and helped shape the American legal system. Thurgood Marshall, Charles Ogletree, Benjamin Hooks, A.A. Latting, Sr., and Ben F. Jones are just a few such legal giants in American history \u00a0worthy of recognition and honor. \u00a0Let us take the time to recognize these and other great African Americans in the law during National African American History Month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FEBRUARY IS NATIONAL AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY MONTH February is officially recognized as National African American History Month, also known as Black&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recruitment-student-success"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7678"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7701,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7678\/revisions\/7701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}