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Date:January26,2015 <br />Item:6.a <br />Black History Month <br />February 2015 <br />Whereas <br />: The City of Roseville is committed to recognizing and honoring the contributions of <br />all members of our community; and <br />Whereas <br />: Negro History Week was established in 1926 by Dr. Carter Godwin Woodson as a <br />way to neutralize the deliberate distortion of Black History; and <br />Whereas <br />: This movement grew over the years to Black History Month to give an objective and <br />scholarly balance in American and World History; and <br />Whereas <br />: The month of February was selected as Black History Month because it marks the <br />birth of Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. DuBois, Langston Hughes and Abraham Lincoln, leaders <br />whose actions greatly impacted the lives of the American black population; and <br />Whereas <br />: The contributions African Americans made to our nation’s economic strength as well <br />as to our history, music, arts, written words and discoveries are often overlooked; and <br />Whereas <br />: On January 1, 1863, the Emancipation Proclamation set the United States on the path <br />of ending slavery, and on August 27, 1963, hundreds of thousands of Americans, blacks and whites, <br />joined the March on Washington to the memorial of Abraham Lincoln, the author of the <br />Emancipation Proclamation, in pursuit of the ideal of equality of citizenship; and <br />Whereas <br />: In 2015, Black History Month celebrates “A Century of Black Life, History, and <br />Culture,” honoring the past 100 years of work by African-Americans and others in the struggle for <br />civil rights and equal treatment under the law; and <br />Whereas <br />: The City of Roseville invites all members of the Roseville community to renew their <br />commitment to ensuring racial equality, understanding and justice. <br />Now, Therefore Be It Resolved <br /> that the City Council hereby declare February 2015 to be Black <br />History Month in the City of Roseville, County of Ramsey, State of Minnesota, U.S.A. <br />In Witness Whereof <br />, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the City of Roseville to <br />be affixed this twenty-sixth day of January 2015. <br />________________________ <br /> Mayor Daniel J. Roe <br /> <br />