| The
2007 National Theme for Black History Month
focuses on the struggles of people of African descent to achieve freedom
and equality in the Americas during the age of emancipation. The transition
from slavery to freedom represents one of the major themes in the
history of the African Diaspora in the Americas. Regardless of the
path to freedom, African people had to struggle for liberation and
equality. Rarely did they enjoy equal citizenship and the untrammeled
right to pursue happiness. Under and against the rule of various powers,
Africans experienced emancipation during the course of the nineteenth
century.
Today,
African Americans have made many successful accomplishments and
continue to struggle and break barriers in the area of politics,
science, entertainment, sports and history. This year, NOAA would
like to focus on four struggles that African Americans have endured
and continue to endure, yet still succeeded in making changes in
America.
The four struggles that contribute to the history of African Americans
include:
- Fighting
for Liberty—The Civil War Struggle (more...)
- Fighting
for Knowledge—Quest for Education (more...)
- Fighting
for America's Freedom—Blacks in WWI and WWII (more...)
- Fighting
for Individual Rights—The Civil Rights Struggle (more...)
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