Hamilton to be guest speaker at museum’s Black History Month event

In honor of Black History Month, members of the Northeast Texas Rural Heritage Museum in Pittsburg will host, “A Celebration of Black History” Feb. 28 at Metropolitan Baptist Church located at 219 Clayton Street.
A reception will begin at 6:30 p.m. and the program will start at 7. Robert Peoples, president of the museum, will welcome the group and serve as master of ceremonies. Songs, poems and a children’s skit will be performed. Marvin Hamilton, the nephew of Miss Nina Johnson, will be the guest speaker. Miss Johnson began the Black History Program many years ago. Everyone is invited to attend. For more information contact the museum at 903-856-1200 or Fanny Hively at 903-855-7571.
Black History Month began in 1926 as part of an initiative by writer and educator Dr. Carter G. Woodson who launched Negro History Week in 1926.
Woodson proclaimed that Negro History Week should always occur in the second week of February —between the birthdays of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln.
Since 1976, every American president has proclaimed February as Black History Month. Today, other countries such as Canada and the United Kingdom also devote an entire month to celebrating black history.