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Black History Month <br />February 2021 <br />Whereas: The City of Roseville is committed to recognizing and honoring the contributions <br />of all members of our communities; and <br />Whereas: 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 />hereas: This movement grew over the years to Black History Month to give an objective <br />W <br />and scholarly balance in American and World History; and <br />Whereas: The Month of February was selected as Black History Month because it marks the <br />birth of Frederick Douglas, 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: The contributions African Americans made and continue to make to our nation’s <br />economic strength as well as to our history, music, arts, national defense from the Revolutionary <br />War to present-Day military operations, written words and discoveries, and inventions are often <br />overlooked; and <br />Whereas: On January 1, 1863, the Emancipation Proclamation set the United States on the <br />path of ending slavery. On August 28, 1963, hundreds of thousands of Americans of all <br />backgrounds joined the March on Washington which was led by Martin Luther King, Jr., <br />Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), James Framer; Congress of Racial Equality <br />(CORE), John Lewis; Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), A. Phillip <br />Randolph; Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, Roy Wilkins; National Association for the <br />Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and Whitney Young, Jr. (National Urban League) in <br />pursuit of jobs, justice and freedom to the Memorial of Abraham Lincoln, the author of the <br />Emancipation Proclamation, in pursuit of freedom and equality for all; and <br />Whereas: Despite all the progress, the legacy of slavery and segregation still persists in our <br />nation in the forms of mass incarceration, the school to prison pipeline, racial profiling, <br />educational inequalities, housing and employment discrimination, racism and bias; and <br />Whereas: In 2021, Black History Month theme centers on “The Black Family: <br />Representation, Identity and Diversity” and the rich tapestry of images and complexities for <br />exploring the African American past and present; and <br /> <br />