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Vol. 32, No. 4 I N S I D E THE VOICE OF THE DELAWARE STATE EDUCATION ASSOCIATION February 2012 There's an app for that! Page 20 Evaluation agreement reached Page 5 This chromolithograph print, "Heroes of the Colored Race," was first printed in 1881 by J. Hoover in Philadelphia. It features portraits of the first two African American U.S. senators, Sen. Blanche Kelso Bruce (left) and Sen. Hiram Rhoades Revels (right). In the center is Frederick Douglass. The three are surrounded by scenes of African American life and portraits of Jno. R. Lynch, Abraham Lincoln, James A. Garfield, Ulysses S. Grant, Joseph H. Rainey, Charles E. Nash, John Brown, and Robert Smalls. This lithograph is in the possession of the National Archives. You can view it at www.loc.gov/pictures/item/00651114/. We salute Teacher of the Month with WJBR 99.5 FM Page 16 February is African-American History Month The story of Black History Month begins in Chicago during the late summer of 1915. national celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the emancipation of slaves. Inspired by the popular three- C week celebration, Woodson decided to form an organization to promote the scientific study of black life and history. Woodson met at the Wabash YMCA with A. L. Jackson and three others, and formed the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASNLH). He hoped that arter G. Woodson traveled from Washington, D.C. in 1915 to participate in a others would popularize the find- ings that he and other black intel- lectuals would publish in , which he established in 1916. As early as 1920, Woodson urged black civic organizations to pro- mote the achievements that researchers were uncovering. A member of Omega Psi Phi, he urged his fraternity brothers to take up the work. In 1924, they responded with the creation of Negro History and Literature Week, which they renamed Negro Achievement Week. As he told an audience of Hampton Institute students, "We are going back to that beautiful his- tory and it is going to inspire us to greater achievements." He sent out a press release announcing Negro History Week in February, 1926. Why February? Since Lincoln's assassination in 1865, the black community, along with other Republicans, had been celebrating Abraham Lincoln's birthday; and since the late 1890s, black communities had been cele- brating Frederick Douglass' birth- day on February 14. Well aware of the pre-existing celebrations, Woodson built Negro History Week around these traditional days of commemorating the black past. Excerpted from www.asalh.org/ black historymonthorigins.html. Find more at the National Archives web site at www.africanamericanhistory month.gov/about.html. The Journal of Negro History