Michigan State University Extension
Diversity and Pluralism - 02050017
12/95/
ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED175782 AUTHOR:
TITLE: For the Dignity of Humanity. 2nd Annual
Commemoration
of Black History.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1979
NOTE: 52 p.
AVAILABILITY: Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government
Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 20402 ($1.80)
ABSTRACT: This booklet contains selected background
materials, biographical information, anecdotes, and
statements documenting contributions made by blacks to
American history. Objectives are to call attention to
information about blacks which has been systematically
excluded from United States history books and to help
people
understand the life, heritage, culture, and problems of
Americans of African descent. Organized in chronological
order, the 22 sections focus on black individuals including
Dred Scott, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Frederick
Douglass, Blanche K. Bruce, George H. White, Homer Plessy,
W.E.B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington, Ralph J. Bunche, Mary
McLeod Bethune, and Percy L. Julian. For each biographical
example, information is presented on personal data, the
historical period in which the individual lived and worked,
types of difficulties overcome by the individual in
question, and major contributions. Major topics throughout
the biographical sketches focus on the slavery system,
prejudice and discrimination, and the civil rights
movement.
A concluding section presents civil rights-related
quotations from Martin Luther King, President John F.
Kennedy, and President Lyndon B. Johnson. (DB)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Affirmative-Action; Bias-; Biographical
Inventories; Black-Influences; Civil-Rights; Cultural
Differences; Disadvantaged-; Minority-Groups; Negative
Attitudes; Political-Issues; Quality-of-Life; Racial
Attitudes; Racial-Segregation; Slavery-; Social-Change;
Social-Integration; Social-Problems
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Black-History; *Cultural-Awareness;
*Democratic-Values; *Human-Dignity; *Social-History;
*United
States-History
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