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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2017
Trump praises
Douglass, other
African-Americans
icons in gathering
By JESSE J. HOLLAND
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Pres-
ident Donald Trump kicked
off Black History Month
on Wednesday by gathering
some of his black aides and
supporters at the White House
for a “listening” session in
which he praised the contri-
butions of slave-turned-abo-
litionist Frederick Douglass
and other African-American
icons.
“Frederick Douglass is an
example of somebody who
has done an amazing job and
is being recognized more and
more, I notice,” Trump told
the group gathered in the
Roosevelt Room.
The president’s comments
drew immediate backlash on
social media from critics who
perceived it as a reference to
a still-living Douglass. Dou-
glass, who died in 1895, was
one of the country’s most
influential and celebrated
African-Americans.
Douglass was born a
slave, and became an ora-
tor and a leading figure in
the anti-slavery movement.
Over the last 20 years of his
life, Douglass served as mar-
shal and recorder of deeds
for the District of Columbia,
as well as U.S. minister to
Haiti. Black History Month
originally started out as a
weeklong celebration that
included Douglass’ birthday
along with that of President
Abraham Lincoln.
White House spokes-
man Sean Spicer later said it
would become clearer what
Trump meant by having
noticed Douglass being rec-
ognized “more and more.”
“I think he wants to high-
light the contributions he has
made,” Spicer said.
Proclamation
The White House has said
Trump plans to issue an offi-
cial proclamation recogniz-
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ing Black History Month,
which has been recognized
by every U.S. president since
1976. Other White House
events are planned, including
a gala and receptions, offi-
cials said.
“During this month, we
honor the tremendous his-
tory of the African-Ameri-
cans throughout our country,
throughout the world if you
really think about it, right?”
Trump said. “And this sto-
ry’s one of unimaginable sac-
rifice, hard work and faith in
America.”
“Martin Luther King Jr.,
Harriet Tubman, Rosa Parks
and “millions more black
Americans who made Amer-
ica what it is today,” Trump
said. “I’m proud to honor this
heritage and will be honoring
it more and more.”
Trump mentioned the
new Smithsonian National
Museum of African Amer-
ican History and Culture
as a place “where people
can learn about Rev. King,
so many other things.” He
did not mention the Mar-
tin Luther King Jr. National
Memorial, which also sits on
the National Mall.
On hand for the listening
session were Housing and
Urban Development Secre-
tary nominee Ben Carson;
Paris Dennard, an official
with the Thurgood Marshall
College Fund; longtime
Republican strategist and
media owner Armstrong
Williams; and White House
adviser Omarosa Manigault.
Trump also said that
he did better in the Afri-
can-American community in
his election than candidates
in previous years. Among
African-Americans, Trump
got 8 percent of the vote,
slightly better than Repub-
lican Mitt Romney’s 6 per-
cent against then-President
Barack Obama in 2012,
according to national exit
polls.
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Things to know about Black History Month
in 1976, on the 50th anniver-
sary of the beginning of Negro
History Week, the Association
for the Study of African Amer-
ican History made the shift to
Black History Month.
By JESSE J. HOLLAND
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Like
his predecessors, President
Donald Trump plans to com-
memorate Black History
Month with an official procla-
mation, a gala and receptions
inside the White House to cel-
ebrate the contributions of the
United States’ black citizens.
“I’m proud to honor this
heritage and will be honor-
ing it more and more,” Trump
said Tuesday as he surrounded
himself with African-Ameri-
can supporters and government
officials invited to the White
House for a listening session.
Black History Month is
considered one of the nation’s
oldest organized history cele-
brations, and has been recog-
nized by U.S. presidents for
decades through proclamations
and celebrations. Here is some
information about the history
of Black History Month.
How did it start?
It was Carter G. Wood-
son, a founder of the Associ-
ation for the Study of African
American History, who first
came up with the idea of the
celebration that became Black
History Month. Woodson, the
son of recently-freed Virginia
slaves, who went on to earn a
Ph.D in history from Harvard,
originally came up with the
idea of Negro History Week
to encourage black Americans
to become more interested in
their own history and heritage.
Woodson worried that black
children were not being taught
about their ancestors’ achieve-
ments in American schools in
the early 1900s.
“If a race has no history, if it
has no worthwhile tradition, it
becomes a negligible factor in
the thought of the world, and it
stands in danger of being exter-
minated,” Woodson said.
Presidential
recogniation
AP Photo
Carter G. Woodson is a founder of the Association for the
Study of African American History, who first came up with
the idea of the celebration that became Black History Month.
celebrated it on Feb. 14.
Daryl Michael Scott, a
Howard University history
professor and former ASAAH
president, said Woodson chose
that week because black Amer-
icans were already celebrating
Lincoln’s and Douglass’s birth-
days. With the help of black
newspapers, he promoted that
week as a time to focus on
African-American history as
part of the celebrations that
were already ongoing.
The first Negro History
Week was announced in Feb-
ruary 1926.
“This was a community
effort spearheaded by Wood-
son that built on tradition, and
built on black institutional life
and structures to create a new
celebration that was a week
long, and it took off like a
rocket,” Scott said.
Why a month?
Woodson chose Febru-
ary for Negro History Week
because it had the birthdays
of President Abraham Lincoln
and Frederick Douglass. Lin-
coln was born on Feb. 12, and
Douglass, a former slave, did
not know his exact birthday but
Negro History Week was
wildly successful, but Wood-
son felt it needed more.
Woodson’s original idea for
Negro History Week was for it
to be a time for student show-
cases of the African-Ameri-
can history they learned the
rest of the year, not as the only
week black history would be
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discussed, Scott said. Wood-
son later advocated starting a
Negro History Year, saying that
during a school year “a sub-
ject that receives attention one
week out of thirty six will not
mean much to anyone.”
Individually several places,
including in West Virginia in
the 1940s and in Chicago in
the 1960s, expanded the cel-
ebration into Negro History
Month. The civil rights and
Black Power movement advo-
cated for an official shift from
Black History Week to Black
History Month, Scott said, and,
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honoring the spirit of Black
History Month.
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History Week in 1975, calling
the recognition “most appro-
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the part of all of us of achieve-
ments that have too long been
obscured and unsung.” The
next year, in 1976, Ford issued
the first Black History Month
commemoration, saying with
the celebration “we can seize
the opportunity to honor the
too-often neglected accom-
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cans in every area of endeavor
throughout our history.”
President Jimmy Carter
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express pride in a heritage
that adds so much to our way
of life,” with President Ron-
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“understanding the history of
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