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AfricanAmerican PioneersPage 1Issue 2 February 2007This History Newsletter brought to you by Phi Eta Westminster ChapterWELCOME to the second issue of Westminsters Phi Alpha Theta Newsletter! February is National Black HistoryMonth and this issue celebrates the lives of some of the famous AfricanAmericans of the twentieth century. In addition to this newsletter take a moment to check out our displays in the library which highlight African American authors the Civil Rights Movement and lynching and mob violence from the early 1900s.Just a few more reasons why history isnt just about a bunch of dead guys.The father of Black History Month was historian Dr. Carter G. Woodson. What began as Negro History Week in1926 would grow into Black History Month in 1976. Woodson purposely chose the second week of February forNegro History Week because it included both Abraham Lincolns and Frederick Douglass birthdays. Rosa Parksbirthday also falls in the month of February.Phi Alpha Theta is the national history honors society whose mission is to promote the study of history throughthe encouragement of research good teaching publication and the exchange of learning and ideas among historians. Sherrie BakelarAll aspects of American Life have been affected by African Americans. Here are just a few memorable individualsthat have helped to shape our lives.George Washington Carver who lived from 1864 to1943 was a revolutionary scientist devoted to the peanut and its numerous byproducts. Carver received his high school diploma and later a degree inagricultural science in 1894 from Iowa Agricultural College (now Iowa State University). Not long afterCarver received his masters from Iowa Agricultural College and became the first African American toserve on the colleges faculty. Soon after word ofCarvers accomplishment spread to Booker T. Washington the head of Tuskegee University. It was not long before Washington offered Carver a position at Tuskegee. In his research Carver produced ove ...

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