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Black History Month Program

Published on Nov 19, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

BLACK HISTORY MONTH PROGRAM

CONYERS SDA CHURCH - JAIR THOMPSON

OPENING PRAYER

KHIYAHNA WALKER
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SONG SERVICE

THE DYL BROTHERS
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AYS AIM

THE ADVENT MESSAGE TO ALL THE WORLD IN MY GENERATION.

AYS MOTTO

THE LOVE OF CHRIST CONSTRAINS ME

AY Pledge

Loving the Lord Jesus, I promise to take an active part in the youth ministry of the church, doing what I can to help others and to finish the work of the Gospel in all the world.

Loving the Lord Jesus, I promise to take an active part in the youth ministry of the church, doing what I can to help others and to finish the work of the Gospel in all the world.

AY SONG

Adventist youth are we,
From every land and sea,
Together we work and pray and play, In happy harmony.
We have a faith to share,
With others everywhere,
A message of love, From God above,
To show the world we care.
Adventist Youth …

AY SONG
Adventist youth are we,
From every land and sea,
Together we work and pray and play, In happy harmony.
We have a faith to share,
With others everywhere,
A message of love, From God above,
To show the world we care.
Adventist Youth
Adventist Youth
Adventist Youth

1400S-1865

THE BEGINNING OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY

PEDRO ALONSO NIÑO

THE BLACK NAVIGATOR (1492)



In 1492, a black navigator, Pedro Alonso Niño, travels with Christopher Columbus's first expedition to the New World.


"BLUESTONE" CHURCH

FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN BAPTIST CHURCH (1758)



The African Baptist or "Bluestone" Church is founded on the William Byrd plantation near the Bluestone River, in Mecklenburg, Virginia, becoming the first known black church in North America.


PHILLIS WHEATLEY

FIRST PUBLISHED WOMEN AUTHOR

Phillis Wheatley was the first African American, the first slave, and the third woman in the United States to publish a book of poems.Wheatley achieved international renown, traveling to London to promote her book and being called upon as well as received by noted social and political figures of the day -- including George Washington, to whom she wrote a poem of praise at the beginning of the war, and Voltaire, who referred to her "very good English verse."

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part2/2p12.html

DR. CARTER G WOODSON

"THE FATHER OF BLACK HISTORY"

In 1926, Dr. Woodson initiated the celebration of Negro History Week, which corresponded with the
birthdays of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln. In 1976, this celebration was expanded to
include the entire month of February.


Congress passes the Thirteenth Amendment, outlawing slavery, and establishes the Freedmen's Bureau to assist former slaves. This is the beginning of the Reconstruction era.

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