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Black History Month: Meet Gwen Elder

Posted: 4:32 PM Gwen Elder knows everything there is about A&M Consolidated High School. Beyond her job as Principal, she's a graduate, herself, of the high school.

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Black History Month: Meet Chief Thomas Williams

Updated: 10:01 AM In small Texas towns, those who work in law enforcement can wear many hats. For Thomas Williams, of Hearne, his responsibility to the city don't stop at just being the Police Chief.

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Black History Month: Meet Chelitia Johnson

Updated: 10:59 AM Chelitia Johnson grew up in College Station going to the Lincoln Recreation Center. As an adult, she's returning the guidance she got as a child.

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Black History Month: Meet Rev. Sam Hill

Updated: 7:55 AM Sundays at North Bryan New Birth Baptist Church, you can find Pastor Sam Hill in front of his congregation. His boisterous voice quickly fills the small sanctuary. Get him one-on-one, though, and it's a different story.

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Black History Month: Meet Rev. Jacqui King

Updated: 6:49 PM Reverend Jacqui King knows her life calling is in the ministry. It's something she says God showed her in the 90s when she was doing community outreach in the Bryan-College Station area.

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Black History Month: Meet Lance Jackson

Updated: 6:46 PM When he finished playing football for Texas A&M, Lance Jackson didn't have plans on returning to College Station. Jackson says it was his calling to use his life to help others in the same way he was helped as a kid growing up in Central Texas.

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Black History Month: Meet Annie Williams

Updated: 6:39 PM When she graduated from Lincoln High School in the 60s, Annie Williams never imagined she would return there. For the past four years, Williams has coordinated the senior program over at the Lincoln Center.

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Bryan Man's Passion for History Inspires Others

Posted: 10:21 AM Black History Month is dedicated to remembering important people and events that shaped the country we live in, and one Bryan man has made it his goal to spread that word all year long.

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Black History Month 2006

Updated: 10:26 AM February marks the beginning of Black History Month - an annual celebration that has existed since 1926. But when the roots of Black History Month are traced back to it's origin, what can be found? How did Black History Month begin? Much of the credit can go to the Harvard Scholar Dr. Carter G. Woodson, who made it his mission to bring Black History into the mainstream public arena. Woodson worked tirelessly with the aim that "the world see the Negro as a participant rather than as a lay figure in history." In 1926 Woodson organized the first annual Negro History Week, which took place during the second week of February. Woodson chose this date to coincide with the birthdays of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln. Both men's lives had enormously impacted the black population. Over time, Negro History Week evolved into the Black History Month that we know today - a four-week-long celebration of African American History.

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The story of Black History Month began a decade after the founding of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History. Learn more about the history of Black History Month.




From athletes, to writers, musicians, and actors, these are the history makers of the past and present that make up Black History.


The Civil Rights Movement brought change, but it didn't come easily. View the interactive timeline to see the many Milestones of the Civil Rights Movement.
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