Download This PaperWhy Bother with Black History Month?
2 Pages Posted: 11 Sep 2017 Last revised: 25 May 2019
Date Written: September 1, 2017
Abstract
The US has repealed slavery, passed the Civil Rights Act and elected a black man to the US Presidency. Do we really need Black History Month? Hasn’t the US evolved to the point that Black history is synonymous with US history?
Not by a mile.
Keywords: race, racism, ethnic, ethnicity, black, history, US, America, genocide, justice
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McGettigan, Timothy, Why Bother with Black History Month? (September 1, 2017). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3030868
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