{"id":27,"date":"2019-01-21T21:51:11","date_gmt":"2019-01-22T01:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ahm.bccnsweb.com\/wp\/?page_id=27"},"modified":"2024-12-03T16:16:37","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T20:16:37","slug":"history-of-african-heritage-month","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ahm.bccnsweb.com\/wp\/history-of-african-heritage-month\/","title":{"rendered":"History of African Heritage Month"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">History of African Heritage Month<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>From the beginning<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The commencement of Black History Month (now referred to as African Heritage Month) is traced back to 1926. Harvard-educated Black historian, Carter G. Woodson, founded Negro History Week to recognize the achievements made by African Americans. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Woodson purposefully chose February because of the birthdays of Frederick Douglas and Abraham Lincoln, who were both key figures in the emancipation of enslaved Blacks. In the 1950&#8217;s Negro History Week was celebrated in Canada, and in 1976 it was expanded to Black History Month.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Black History Month in Canada<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For the past decades, the contributions of African Canadians have been acknowledged informally. However, Nova Scotia has set a path for Canada&#8217;s recognition of African Heritage Month. Our province has been a leader in promoting and recognizing our African heritage in our country.\u00a0 Some efforts of Nova Scotia include:\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1985 \u2013 The &#8220;official&#8221; opening night of Black History Month at the North Branch Library<\/li>\n<li>1987 \u2013 First meeting of the Black History Month Association<\/li>\n<li>1988 \u2013 First Black History Month in Nova Scotia<\/li>\n<li>1994 &#8211; Black History Month Association was officially incorporated in Nova Scotia<\/li>\n<li>1996 \u2013 Black History Month renamed to African Heritage Month in Nova Scotia<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We believe some of these efforts have influenced our country to take action on a national level:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1995 \u2013 The House of Commons officially recognized February as Black History Month following a motion introduced by the Honourable Jean Augustine, the first Black Canadian woman elected to Parliament.<\/li>\n<li>2008\u2014Nova Scotia Senator Donald Oliver, Q.C., the first Black man appointed to the Senate, officially declared February as Black History Month. His motion was the final parliamentary procedure needed for Canada&#8217;s permanent recognition of Black History Month.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>History of African Heritage Month From the beginning The commencement of Black History Month (now referred to as African Heritage&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":99,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-27","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahm.bccnsweb.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahm.bccnsweb.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahm.bccnsweb.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahm.bccnsweb.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahm.bccnsweb.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahm.bccnsweb.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1239,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahm.bccnsweb.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27\/revisions\/1239"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahm.bccnsweb.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahm.bccnsweb.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}