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The Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) is a non-profit organization founded in Chicago, Illinois, in 1915 as The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History by Carter G. Woodson and Jesse E. Moorland.[1] The association is based in Washington, D.C.
ASALHs official mission is "to promote, research, preserve, interpret and disseminate information about Black life, history and culture to the global community."
The ASALH created Negro History Week in 1926. The modern observance has increased in duration and is now known as Black History Month.
The organization publishes The Journal of African American History (formerly The Journal of Negro History), and the Black History Bulletin (formerly the Negro History Bulletin).
Association for the Study of AfricanAmericanLife and History- The mission of the Association for the Study of AfricanAmericanLife and History (ASALH) is to promote, research, preserve, interpret and disseminate information about African-American life, history and culture to the global community.
The Association for the Study of AfricanAmericanLife and History is headquartered in Washington D.C., temporarily on the campus of Howard University.
AmericanAssociation of School Administrators- The AmericanAssociation of School Administrators, founded in 1865, is the professional organization for more than 13,000 educational leaders across America and in many other countries.
In 1915, Carter Godwin Woodson, the father of Black history, founded the Association for the Study of African-American Life and History.
The recent growth in the study and interpretation of African- AmericanHistory within the National Park Service illustrates the comprehensive attempt by many park units to tell their parts of this story to the American people.
The integration of the armed forces was a momentous event in our military and national history; it represented a milestone in the development of the armed forces and the fulfillment of the democratic ideal.
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