2012 Black History Calendar Events
Event: Blended Lives Program:
Location: Riley House museum of black history and
Goodwood Museum and Gardens - Tallahassee, Florida
When: Held Monday through
Friday
Description: The Blended Lives program will be held Monday through Friday
at the Riley House museum of black history and Goodwood Museum and Gardens. The
program teaches fourth-graders about local historical issues involving blacks
and whites. This year's theme is Reconstruction and includes a roundtable
discussion by local university scholars on Tuesday for high school students.
Event: Assemblies on Black History Location: Cobb Middle School, Tallahassee,
Florida When: February 9th at 10:30 am and 11:30 am Description: Cobb Middle
School program will host two assemblies on black history February 9th at 10:30
am and 11:30 am. The assemblies will be held in the Cobb Gym and will focus on
the theme "Black Women in American History and Culture". Liz Holifield will be
speaking at the 10:30 am assembly and Leon County Commissioner Nick Maddox will
be speaking at the 11:30 am Assembly.
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Event: The Soweto Gospel Choir
Location:
Ruby Diamond Concert Hall at Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida
When: February each year
Description: The Soweto Gospel Choir will be performing
at Ruby Diamond Concert Hall at Florida State University. The Foundation for
Leon County Schools and the Florida State University are bringing a fantastic
opportunity to our middle school choir students that has now been extended to
our high school students as well. As you may know, in February of each year, FSU
hosts the area’s premier fine arts showcase, Seven Days of Opening Nights. This
year they want to share this wonderful experience with our school students. For
more information about the festival or the Soweto Gospel Choir, please visit:
http://www.sevendaysfestival.org/
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Event: Play highlights the lives of Dr. Selma
Burke, Asa Phillip Randolph, Benjamin Banneker, James Weldon Johnson, and TK
Washington.
Location: Moore Haven Jr. Sr. High School, 700 Terrier Pride Drive,
Moore Haven, Florida 33471
When: Starting on Friday February 24
Description: Our
students are putting on an untitled play that they found on line, written by a
Mary E. Nickson (a united states Marine). The Play highlights the lives of Dr.
Selma Burke, Asa Phillip Randolph, Benjamin Banneker, James Weldon Johnson, and
TK Washington. Also Included in the play are a step routine and an interpretive
dance. Preceding the play we have a students reciting "Still I Rise" and
"Million Man March" by Maya Angelou. We will be performing for the student's on
Friday February 24. Then on Sunday, February 26, we will be performing for the
Moore Haven Community. Added to Sundays program will be a 3 on 3 basketball
tournamentg (sponsored by Glades County Sheriff's Department) and a Community
Soul food cook-off (sponsored by Thomas Diner of Harlem). Plus there will be
yard games, Music and more!
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Event: 2012 BLACK HISTORY MONTH ACTIVITIES AND
RESOURCES
Location: MIAMI-DADE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Description: Download
Document
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Event: Black History Month activities
Location: Hillsborough County
Public Schools
Description: Download Document
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Location: Liberty County High
School
Description: Liberty County High School - On February 1 in all of my
American Government classes I read to them " Letter to my former Master". And we
had a very good discussion about the tone of the letter and the insight that the
letter gave on some of the feeling of former slaves toward their former masters.
We are discussing W.E.B. Dubois and the progressive foundations of the NAACP.
Location: Hosford & Tolar School Description: Hosford & Tolar School we have
posted, throughout the school, biographical information of famous
African-Americans. This information includes birth and death dates, field of
accomplishment, and list the main contribution of each person. These are
scientists, civil rights leaders, educators, etc. In addition, we are having
Beta Club members do "read-a-loud" to the lower grades of stories by
African-American authors and biographies of famous African-Americans Singing
about slaves and their lives in the song project they will be presenting next
week. In Social Studies, we are finishing up the novel The Watson's go to
Birmingham - 1963. We linked it to our discussions on civil rights movement,
etc.- Reading Resources for Children
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