Happy February, Family & Friends:

FEBRUARY is BLACK HISTORY MONTH ; and the THEME
for Black History for 2019 is "BLACK MIGRATION"
--Set annually by ASALH ( Association For The Study Of
African American Life and History)

HAPPY BLACK HISTORY MONTH (& YEAR)!
2019 is starting off to a busy year, and I am pleased to share my "life story"....The trials & tribulations (and lessons learned) of desegregation during my early childhood living in the south...eventually necessitating the family "migrating"
out of town for educational purposes, once the schools closed
in Prince Edward County, Virginia in 1959, for five (5) years,
due to Virginia's resistance to the Brown vs. The Board of
Education landmark desegregation case
( more about that personal experience in my book: "Driven To Succeed: Lesson Learned Through Faith, Family, and Favor "
...on my website below).
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Thus, I am so pleased and honored to share these upcoming
events with you during the BLACK HISTORY Month in the
hopes that you will be able to attend (or TUNE in).

If not, please say a Pray that God will touch my words and interactions with the audiences to INSPIRE, EMPOWER, and MOTIVATE them to live up to their
FULL POTENTIAL.

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Dr. Washington's cookbook--" Aunt Hattie's Cookbook: Southern
Comfort Food Favorites" will be "Featured" a special Morning Event
at the ASALH
Association for the Study of African American Life and History)
93rd Annual Black History:

"Featured Authors" & Book Signing Event
on
Saturday, February 16, 2019
From 10:00 am-12:00 pm (See Flyer Below).
The Washington Renaissance Hotel
999 Ninth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001

By the way, this portion of the day's activities is FREE;
therefore, I'm hoping that
you will consider joining me that morning; it will be fun!

If you are interested in attending the 93rd annual
Black History Luncheon, you must have a ticket ---May purchase
ticket/s by clicking on www.asalh.org
as well as to get more information about ASALH.
Looking forward to seeing you there,
Hattie

PS - Look out for up-coming events
monthly through my social media and on
my website at www.drhnwashington.com.

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For Your Information :
In keeping with this
year's ASALH theme, "Black Migrations",
here are some interesting facts about the African American migratory experience.

The Great Migration (African-American)

T he Great Migration , sometimes known as the Great Northward Migration , was the movement of six million African-Americans out of the rural Southern United State s to the urban Northeast , Midwest , and West that occurred between 1916 and 1970. In every U.S. Census prior to 1910 , more than 90 percent of the African-American population lived in the American South. In 1900, only one-fifth of African-Americans living in the South were living in urban areas.

B y the end of the Great Migration, over 50 percent of the African-American population remained in the South, while a little less than 50 percent lived in the North and West, and the African-American population had become highly urbanized. By 1960, of those African-Americans still living in the South, half now lived in urban areas and by 1970, more than 80 percent of African-Americans nationwide lived in cities.

I n 1991, historian Nicholas Lemann wrote that:
The Great Migration was one of the largest and most rapid mass internal movements in history—perhaps the greatest not caused by the immediate threat of execution or starvation. In sheer numbers it outranks the migration of any other ethnic group—Italians or Irish or Jews or Poles—to [the United States]. For blacks, the migration meant leaving what had always been their economic and social base in America, and finding a new one.

S ome historians differentiate between a first Great Migration (1916–1940), which saw about 1.6 million people move from mostly rural areas in the south to northern industrial cities, and a Second Great Migration (1940–1970), which began after the Great Depression and brought at least 5 million people—including many townspeople with urban skills—to the north and west.

S ince the Civil Rights Movement , a less rapid reverse migration has occurred. Dubbed the New Great Migration , it has seen a gradual increase of African-American movement to the South, generally to states and cities where economic opportunities are the best. The reasons include economic difficulties of cities in the Northeastern and Midwestern United States, growth of jobs in the " Ne w South " and its lower cost of living , family and kinship ties, and improved racial relations.

A s early as 1975 to 1980, several southern states were net African-American migration gainers, while in 2014, African-American millennials moved in the highest numbers to Texas , Georgia , Florida , North Carolina , and California . African-American populations have continued to drop throughout much of the Northeast , especially from the state of New York and northern New Jersey, as they rise in the South.

Courtesy of WIKIPEDIA