Theme of black history month 2016 is Hallowed Grounds: Sites of African American Memories

theme of Black History month 2016 Hallowed Grounds: Sites of African American Memories

Question: What is the theme of 2016 black history month?

Answer: The Theme of black history month 2016 is, Hallowed Grounds: Sites of African American Memories.

Americans of African descent is deeply embedded in the narrative of the American past, and the sites prompt us to remember. Over time, many of these sites of African American memory became hallowed grounds.
The Theme of black history month 2016 is, Hallowed Grounds: Sites of African American Memories.

 

Rosa park, its because of you that we are celebrating black history month

Rosa Louise McCauley Parks, called Rosa Parks (February 4 1913, Tuskegee, Alabama, USA - October 24, 2005, Detroit, Michigan) is a seamstress who became a symbolic figure of the fight against racial segregation in the United States, which earned him the nickname "mother of the civil rights movement" by the US Congress. Rosa Parks fought against racial segregation with Martin Luther King.

 

Rosa Parks became famous on 1 December 1955, in Montgomery (Alabama) in refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger on the bus driven by James F. Blake. Arrested by the police, she is fined $ 15 on December 5; She appealed this judgment. A young unknown black pastor of 26 years, Martin Luther King, with the assistance of Ralph Abernathy, then launched a campaign of protest and boycott against the bus company that lasted 381 days. On November 13, 1956, the Supreme Court quashes the segregationist laws in the bus, declaring unconstitutional.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The history of African American unfolds across the canvass of America, beginning before the arrival of the Mayflower and continuing to the present. From port cities where Africans disembarked from slave ships to the battle fields where their descendants fought for freedom, from the colleges and universities where they have pursued education, to places where they created communities during centuries of migration, the imprint of One cannot tell the story of America without preserving and reflecting on the places where African Americans have made history.

 

The Kingsley Plantation, DuSable's home site, the numerous stops along the Underground Railroad, Seneca Village, Mother Bethel A.M.E. Church and Frederick Douglass' home to name just a few are sites that keep alive the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in our consciousness. They retain and refresh the memories of our forbearers' struggles for freedom, justice, and God's grace and mercy. Similarly, the hallowed grounds of Mary McLeod Bethune's home in Washington, 125th Street in Harlem, Beale Street in Memphis, and Sweet Auburn Avenue in Atlanta tell the story of our struggle for equal citizenship during the American century.

The Theme of black history month 2016 is, Hallowed Grounds: Sites of African American Memories.
The National Park Service (NPS) takes responsibility for preserving and teaching about the places that have been central in the making of African American memory. Virtually every aspect of our experience has become part and parcel of the NPS mission, including the home of our founder, Carter G. Woodson.

Travel to the hallowed ground

1. Mulberry Row at Monticello
Location: Route 20, Charlottesville, Va.
Information: www.Monticello.org

2. Ivy Creek Natural Area, Riverview Farm
Location: Earlysville Road, 1.5 miles west of Route 29 just north of Charlottesville, Va.
Hours: Daily, dawn to dusk.
Information: www.ivycreekfoundation.org (go to History section); 434-973-7772
Orange County

3. James Madison's Montpelier, Orange, Va.
Location: Route 20, 4 miles southwest of Organge, Va.
Information: www.Montpelier.org; 540-672-2728.
Prince William County

4. Manassas Industrial School Jennie Dean Memorial
Location: 12 miles east of Route 15 at Haymarket; 9601 Prince William Street, Manassas, Va.
Information: www.manassasmuseum.org
Fauquier County

5. Afro-American Historical Association of Fauquier County, Va.
Location:12 miles west of Route 15 at Haymarket; 4249 Loudoun Ave., The Plains, Va.
Information: 540-253-7488
Loudoun County Walking Tours

6. Leesburg, Va.
Location: Business Route 15 goes right through the town of Leesburg.

7. Waterford, Va.
Location: 4 miles west of Leesburg and Route 15
Hours: Self-guided walking tour.
Information: www.waterfordva.org
Jefferson County, W.Va.

8. Harpers Ferry NHP
Location: 15 miles west of the intersection of Routes 15 and 340, in Harpers Ferry, W.Va.
Information: www.nps.gov/hafe.
Adams County, Pa.

 

The African-American Heritage Trail consists of sites that provide a historical glimpse into the life of African-Americans .The hard labor bourn by slaves, the entrepreneurship of free blacks, the devotion to religion and education, service to our country, and the desire to learn and preserve valuable history await to tell the visitor a grand story.