{"id":2194,"date":"2018-02-01T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/?p=2194"},"modified":"2017-06-19T09:40:54","modified_gmt":"2017-06-19T14:40:54","slug":"theme-thursday-evolution-of-revolution-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/theme-thursday-evolution-of-revolution-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Theme Thursday – Evolution of Revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"

Black History Month, or National African American History Month, is an annual celebration of achievements by black Americans and a time for recognizing the central role of African Americans in U.S. history. Black History Month was first proposed by Black educators and the Black United Students at Kent State University in February 1969. The first celebration of Black History Month took place at Kent State one year later, in February 1970.<\/span><\/p>\n

Six years later Black History Month was being celebrated all across the country in educational institutions, centers of Black culture and community centers, both great and small, when President Gerald Ford recognized Black History Month, during the celebration of the United States Bicentennial. He urged Americans to “seize the opportunity to honor the too-often neglected accomplishments of black Americans in every area of endeavor throughout our history.”<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>This month, Theme Thursdays will focus on revolutions related to black Americans. Black Americans have a long history of participating in revolutions, from the American Revolution to the Industrial Revolution. While it hasn\u2019t been called a \u201crevolution,\u201d the #BlackLivesMatter movement is a call to action and response to anti-Black racism permeating U.S. society. <\/span>Black Lives Matter has a defined agenda, defined leadership structure, and strategy for getting what it wants. It\u2019s been said that if it must choose between evolution and revolution\u2014between working within the existing system and disrupting that system entirely\u2014then Black Lives Matter is choosing, to an extent, revolution.<\/span><\/p>\n

Black Lives Matter activists have organized thousands of protests, a form of activism which has a long history with black communities. Learn about protests and activism within the black community with these collections from Ames.<\/span><\/p>\n

Black students in protest: A study of the origins of the Black student movement<\/em>, by Anthony M. Orum<\/a><\/p>\n

Pullman porters and the rise of protest politics in Black America, 1925-1945<\/em>, by Beth Tompkins Bates<\/a><\/p>\n

Schooling Jim Crow: The fight for Atlanta’s Booker T. Washington High School and the roots of Black protest politics<\/em>, by Jay Winston Driskell Jr.<\/a><\/p>\n

Strategies for freedom: The changing patterns of Black protest<\/em>, by Bayard Rustin<\/a><\/p>\n

Black protest: history, documents, and analyses, 1619 to the present<\/em>, edited with introd. and commentary by Joanne Grant<\/a><\/p>\n

Black protest in the sixties<\/em>, edited with an introd. by August Meier and Elliott Rudwick<\/a><\/p>\n

Black protest: Issues and tactics<\/em>, by Robert C. Dick<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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