African-Americans contributed in every aspect of American ability including literature, art, agriculture, arts, and entertainment, amusing and abstruse a part of abounding others. February is appointed "Black History Month," aswell referred to as African-American History Month, or African Ancestry Month, to bless these achievements.
African Americans or Atramentous Americans are American citizens who accept origins in any of the atramentous populations of Africa. In the U.S., the appellation is about acclimated for Americans with at atomic fractional Sub-Saharan African ancestry. A lot of African-Americans are the absolute birth of bound Africans who survived the bullwork era, admitting some are descended from autonomous immigrants from African, Caribbean, Central American or South American countries. African-Americans annual for the individual better ancestral boyhood accumulation in the U.S., which is about 12 percent of the absolute U.S. population.
Historian Carter G. Woodson started Atramentous History Ages in 1926. Woodson chose the additional anniversary of February to bless atramentous history because it apparent the birthdays of two Americans who abundantly afflicted the lives and amusing action of African Americans: above President Abraham Lincoln and abolitionist Frederick Douglass.
At the time Woodson started Atramentous History Month, representation and accepting of African-Americans contributions to American history was not mainstream; references to African-Americans usually alone included disciplinarian and their descendants. The advertence of George Washington Carver, a scientist, botanist, drillmaster and artist whose analysis and teaching revolutionized agriculture, was a common exception. Also, W.E.B. DuBois' 1935 plan "Black Reconstruction" was an aboriginal plan in history that acicular to atramentous contributions.
Today, Atramentous History Ages is a arguable observance. Abounding criticize the candor of a appointed ages committed to the history of one race. Magazines like Time, Newsweek, USA Today and BusinessWeek accept run online writing on this controversy.
Notable African-Americans acclaimed every year cover but are not bound to George Washington Carver, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Martin Luther King Jr., Miles Davis and W.E.B. Dubois. Read added about African-Americans achievements in American history in the annual American Legacy, which is a annual that focuses on African-American ancestry and modern-day culture.
Notable modern-day African Americans acclaimed are Michael Jordan, Ronald McNair, Oprah Winfrey, Colin Powell, Condoleeza Rice, Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby, Kanye West and abounding more. Read added about these modern-day African-Americans in magazines like Time, Vibe, Essence, Billboard, The Economist, Ball Weekly and O the Oprah magazine.
President Barack Obama is now the a lot of acclaimed African-American. President Obama is bisected Africanhis father, now deceased, was from Kenya and his mother, aswell deceased, was a white American.
