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Top five Black History Facts that celebrate three simple words black is beautiful before we begin we publish new videos every day so be sure to subscribe for more great content number five Black History Month started as Black History Week hold up it's that time of the year again it's come up to shine everybody lindo arrogant 28 or 29 days isn't nearly enough time to discuss the accomplishments of the black community so we can't imagine only having seven but that was the case in 1926 when author and historian Carter G Woodson launched the celebration of Negro.

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 History Week in the hopes of highlighting the community during a time when their efforts were being ignored in 1969 the leaders of the black United students at Kent State University proposed an extension and seven years later or fifty years after the week's inception the US government made the month official honoring black excellence isn't exclusive to u.s. Both the UK and Canada participates with the UK celebrating in October and Canada following suit with the US February recognition no person can imagine where he's going a Mexican military in Spain number four black colleges offered opportunities to other discriminated communities black history has had an impact on well everyone.

We don't just mean the majority we mean other minority groups that have had to deal with oppression black institutions have a history of opening their doors to other groups who at the time didn't have anywhere else to go prime example of this being the Jewish community historically these institutions have admitted students of all races and now almost 40% are other than African American in the 1930s.

Jewish teachers came to u.s. In hopes of finding jobs after losing their positions in Austria and Germany, unfortunately, the words of the day were xenophobia and anti-Semitism but black historical colleges ignored those words and employed over 50 Jewish academics not only did this create a safe environment for them to work in but it allowed black and white individuals to engage in important conversations they have been driven by the fundamental belief that all of our citizens should have access to a higher education.

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 If they so desire number three Allen’s worth was the first all-black township in California I am Jefferson Allen’s worth Lam Jefferson for he who framed up buying Constitution Allen's work for he who found the community of free blacks and Lam cut like to eat lamb chops if you build it they will come especially if it means getting away from racial discrimination that was the goal for Allen Allen’s worth a man who was born into slavery and who would later become.

The first African American to become a lieutenant colonel after his army days him and his family moved to California where he began to implement his dream creating an all-black community where they would be allowed to thrive and be free of discrimination the town had many great successes including having California's first african-american school district even after Colonel Allen’s worth died in 1914 and when people started leaving to pursue jobs during World War two the town continues on and is still around today its downtown area now stands as the Colonel Allen worth State Historic Park and there are still residents who live outside of it number.

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Two Claudette Colvin did Rosa Parks before Rosa Parks despite their impressive history black women don't always get the recognition they deserve of course there are women we talk about every February such as Claudette Colvin and her refusal to give up her seat on the bus but what's that you believe we're referring to Rosa Parks yes it's true that miss parks was the catalyst in the Montgomery bus boycott but nine months before this historical moment 15 year old Claudette was the first to ever be arrested for not giving up her seat as she insisted that it was her constitutional right and I was felt like this is my time to take a stand suggested she may not have gotten the recognition at the time but her impact is undeniable I just wanted people to come together and unify and fight this segregation number one there have been many notable achievements in black geekery.

For some reason people are surprised when black nerds or blurred if you prefer enter the scene I'm gonna give you the good the bad and the nerdy in reality they've been here the entire time in fact we wouldn't have some of the geekery we hold dear without them meet Gerald a Jerry Lawson the man responsible for home video game consoles with his Fairchild channel F the first system to use interchangeable cartridges if you're a movie buff check out Mark Hanna who could develop the 3d graphics technology used in a lot of movies including a little-known flick about dinosaurs in some Park you even have black geeks to thank for the super soaker invented by Lonnie Johnson because really what's nerdier than running around with epic water guns.

This epic black cosplay movement that's what we hope we've been lightened view about the significance of black history because we barely scratched the surface of the accomplishments of black community our school has a fine library or so I’ve been told are any student who wants who can study more about black history do you agree.
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