{"id":8114,"date":"2022-02-01T08:00:45","date_gmt":"2022-02-01T13:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/?p=8114"},"modified":"2024-11-19T12:15:20","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T17:15:20","slug":"black-history-month-2022-begins-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/?p=8114","title":{"rendered":"Black History Month 2022 Begins Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>February 1 marks the beginning of <a href=\"https:\/\/asalh.org\/about-us\/about-black-history-month\/\">Black History Month,<\/a> founded by Dr. Carter G. Woodson, who also established the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH).<\/p>\n<p>He originally envisioned \u201cNegro History Week\u201d during the second week of February because it included the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass who were both prominent symbols of American freedom.<\/p>\n<p>2022&#8217;s theme is Black Health and Wellness. The Digital Library of Georgia has many items related to that topic, available at <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/bhmdlg22\"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">bit.ly<\/span><span class=\"bitlink--hash\" style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">\/bhmdlg22<\/span><\/a><span class=\"bitlink--hash\" style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"> for you to explore.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>You can read more about 2022&#8217;s Black History Month theme, and the themes of previous years <a href=\"https:\/\/asalh.org\/black-history-themes\/\">here at the ASALH website<\/a>. If you are a resident of Georgia and want to reach out to your local ASALH branch, the information is available here. Local ASALH chapters generate a remarkable amount of excellent African American history and cultural programming throughout the year.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Atlanta Branch<br \/>\nSean W. Jones, President<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:asalhatlantabranch@gmail.com\">asalhatlantabranch@gmail.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Athens Branch<br \/>\nSandy Dwayne Martin, President<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:martin@uga.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">martin@uga.edu<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Savannah\u00a0<span class=\"s1\">Yamacraw\u00a0<\/span>Branch<br \/>\nCarolyn Blackshear, President<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:asalhsavannahbranch@gmail.com\">asalhsavannahbranch@gmail.com<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>From our partners at Clark Atlanta University and the Atlanta University Center Robert W Woodruff Library, here is a photograph of African American women in a nursing class, circa 1900, which took place at Atlanta University.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/cau_nursing-class-in-1900.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8115 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/cau_nursing-class-in-1900.jpeg\" alt=\"African American women in a nursing class, circa 1900, which took place at Atlanta University.\" width=\"800\" height=\"665\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/cau_nursing-class-in-1900.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/cau_nursing-class-in-1900-300x249.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/cau_nursing-class-in-1900-768x638.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Title: Women in Class, circa 1900<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Holding Institution: Clark Atlanta University <\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dlg.usg.edu\/record\/auu_auc-001_0923\">https:\/\/dlg.usg.edu\/record\/auu_auc-001_0923<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 1 marks the beginning of Black History Month, founded by Dr. Carter G. Woodson, who also established the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH). He originally envisioned \u201cNegro History Week\u201d during the second week of February because it included the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass who were &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/?p=8114\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Black History Month 2022 Begins Today&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[176],"tags":[840,683,247,839],"class_list":["post-8114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-african-american-health-and-wellness","tag-african-american-history","tag-african-americans","tag-black-history-month"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8114"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8948,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8114\/revisions\/8948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}