National African American History Month
by We honor the memories of our weary, but courageous, ancestors who fought for equality and justice that we might have a better life, and strengthen this nation through our contributions of gifts and talents that God so lovingly, and graciously bestowed upon us.
The month of February is a special time when we celebrate the vast contributions that African Americans have made to our nation’s history and identity here in the United States of America. We honor the memories of our weary, but courageous, ancestors who fought for equality and justice that we might have a better life, and strengthen this nation through our contributions of gifts and talents that God so lovingly, and graciously bestowed upon us.
Generations of African Americans, who fought for justice and equality, persevered through perilous times when the evils of Jim Crow segregation and discrimination was so prevalent in this country; and, though the road was long and hard, they did not cave in and quit. They continued to march, and they continued to fight for the vision they longed to see come to pass– “liberty and justice for all”– singing what is known today as the Negro National Anthem:”Lift Every Voice and Sing.”
“We have come over a way that with tears have been watered,
We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered;
Out from the gloomy past, till now we stand at last
Where the white gleam of our bright star is cast.”
You can’t talk about National African American History Month without talking about the late, great, honorably Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. He was the greatest civil rights leader of all times, and believed in nonviolent protests. He lead the Montgomery, Alabama boycott– the first great Negro nonviolent demonstration of contemporary times in the United States. The boycott lasted 382 days. On December 21, 1956, Negroes and whites road the bus as equals after the Supreme Court of the United States had declared the laws requiring segregation on buses unconstitutional. At the age of thirty-five, Dr. King was the youngest man to have received the Nobel Peace Prize.
Dr. King directed a march on Washington D.C., of 250,000 people where he delivered, what is known today as, his famous “I HAVE A DREAM” speech:
“I have a dream that one day the state of Alabama, whose governor’s lips are presently dripping with the words of interposition and nullification, will be transformed into a situation where little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls and walk together as sisters and brothers.”
Today, this dream is not being denied. Although African Americans still fight to eradicate other pockets of resistance to “liberty and justice for all,” we as a nation are learning to embrace what God has allowed to come together for his greater plan, as we pray, GOD BLESS AMERICA!”
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