A funny thing, though: The man who started the tradition in the 1920s didn't think it would last. He didn't want it to last. Some day, he thought, African Americans and their history would enter the American mainstream. A special day, week or month to tell their stories and study their past simply wouldn't be necessary. Black history month is the month in which we bear witness to the progress, richness and diversity of African …showed first 75 words of 771 total…

…showed last 75 words of 771 total…had to do for there country, city , or there freedom. As the years come and go there are still African Americans that are trying to be noticed and stepp up for there country but as they continue i believe that black can do anything and be anything they would like to if they put there heart, mind , and soul into it and give it there best and let nothin get in your way. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**