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2nd Timeline Celebrating Black History Month on Display

The YSPH Office of Alumni Affairs has created a second timeline in celebration of Black History Month.  The timeline has been put into the display case in the lobby of LEPH, 60 College Street.  This installation starts with the year 1891 and continues through 2007, celebrating the milestones achieved by some of our Yale alumni and faculty in Public Health and Medicine.

This exhibit is offered to you in celebration of our remarkable alumni and in celebration of our strengths as a diverse community.

Black History Month serves as a remembrance of important people and events in U.S. history.  It was established in 1976 by the Afro-Americans for the Study of Afro-American Life and History'. The month-long celebration was an expansion of 'Negro History Week', established in 1926 by historian Carter G. Woodson. Woodson was the
Director of what was then known as the 'Association for the Study of Negro Life and History'. Woodson purposely selected the week in February that embraced the birthdays of both Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln.  Part of the aim of Black History Month is to expose the harms of racial prejudice and to cultivate black self-esteem following centuries of socio-economic oppression. It presents a wonderful opportunity to recognize significant contributions to society made by people of African heritage.