When ships a sea were lost due to the destructive forces of hurricanes, sudden or not, the slaves were oftentimes not freed from their chains before the ship went down.
When blacks were working as slaves they would sing songs while picking cotton. As slaves were freed they still had their own types of music (call and response; plantation songs; spirituals;...
Because many black historians did things that are very important a lot of the things we use today are made by black Americans. Without most of our black historians, we wouldn't have a lot of things.
The idea is to have a month set aside for black Americans whose history is often blotted out. It's only to be around until black Americans history is as commonly taught as white Americans history or...
because they stride alot and came along way to break down segregation and unequal rights. they have a long history of great leaders,civil right activits,athletes,hollywood stars,actresses and...