Black History Month | Pixabay by ekavesh
Black History Month | Pixabay by ekavesh
To celebrate Black History Month, the Black History Committee offers these facts about some notable African Americans and a quiz about African American history.
Did you know?
-Van Johnson began his career at UNMC in 1956 at the Nebraska Psychiatric Institute. A pioneer in medical educational technology, Johnson worked with Cecil Wittson, MD, and Reba Benschoter, PhD, to install and operate the first psychiatric closed-circuit television in the United States.
-Freddie Powell Johnson, PhD, graduated from the University of Nebraska School of Nursing in 1952. In the 1980s, she taught courses at UNMC on medical surgical nursing, quality assurance and gerontology in the UNMC College of Nursing.
-In 1926, Carter G. Woodson, a noted African American historian, scholar, educator and publisher who often is referred to as the “father of Black history,” established Black History Week to focus attention on African American contributions to civilization. It wasn’t until 1976 that it turned into a monthlong celebration.
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