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Ozarka College Celebrates Black History Month

from:Ozarka College category:Schools and Libraries website:More Info posted:February 9th, 2012
Black History Month is observed every February throughout the United States. We owe the celebration of Black History to Dr. Carter G. Woodson who was born to former slaves, worked in the Kentucky coal mines, and later went on to school and earned a Ph.D. from Harvard. Because he found very little representation of black Americans in the history books, he decided to take on the challenge of writing black Americans into the nation's history. In celebration of Black History Month, The Paul Weaver Library

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