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I am Karen Hunter and in part three, you'll get to hear how Omega Sci-Fi, my daddy's fraternity, by the way, played a big role in Negro History Week. And that

turned into, of course, Black History Month, which is where we are now. So stay tuned to a conversation

with me and Dr. Gray Carr, America's professor, professor of the largest Africana Studies

classroom in the world.

He and I in class with Carr having a discussion about the origins of Black History Month.

Stay tuned.

There are several origin stories.

And the thing about origin stories is you can always make up a different one.

So in 1926, by 1926, the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, which had been founded in Chicago in 1915 by Woodson, was over a decade old, obviously, 11 years old.

And Carter Woodson was part of a tiny group, a tiny group of black people in the United States of America who had been able to acquire, quote unquote, higher education. And I say be able to, because as we know in the

miseducated Negro, he's very critical to that group. One of the reasons he can be very critical

to that group because he knows them all. I mean And it's very interesting to see how, for example,

I was just rereading some of the documents around the Aminia conference in New York,

where you've got these generational conflict.

They invite all these trout Beck is the name of the estate, Joel Spengarn.

It's the equivalent of the Ford Foundation or the Mellon Foundation or the

Jukabogu Foundation, the Blank Foundation, the Filling in the Blank Foundation, inviting all you

Negroes who are going to, you know, make revolution, paying for your airfare, paying for your

lodging, making sure you have three meals and snacks, keep it and put out continuously, and then they put you in a wonderful edifice, and then they record everything you say while you're talking, and then three of the Negroes are picked to curate and write the report, and then they put it out on how you're going to plot revolution. Anyway, they had something like that called the Amelia. The Charleston, a row of bunch of them is there, And you got some of the common, some of the socialists is there.

You know, Du Bois in them is there. You know, it's very interesting. Another figure who people may not have heard of Emmett Dorsey was on the faculty at Howard University for a number of years. I never met Emmett Dorsey, but I was fortunate enough to be on that faculty with a number, well, a number, enough faculty members,

and all of them who are now retired, who were his students at one time. Dorsey was one of them radicals, so they all up in there talking, you know. And I'm saying, I'll just say that there was generational differences. I don't get too far into this, because, I mean, you know, you say you've got the younger cats bunching them

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