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Black History Month Thesis

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Black History Month started in 1915 and was made to appreciate colored people and has carried on for centuries and is still around. The good and the bad in the declaration.The good is the African-Americans won at the declaration at court. The Whites thought it was a problem because of how they saw African-Americans(Negroes).They thought their white children wouldn 't get as much education.The African-Americans have improved their Stereotype by graduating and finding cures for almost unsolvable things.

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