This document provides an overview of a presentation by Michael Imhotep on whether African Americans should celebrate Black History Month. The presentation discusses the origins of Black History Month, how it was created by Dr. Carter G. Woodson to promote the scientific study of Black life and history. It seeks to dispel myths about Black History Month and make the study of African American history more relevant. It also honors important figures who have contributed to the field like Dr. David Imhotep and provides resources for further research.

1. Should African-Americans
Celebrate “Black History Month?
Exposing The Myths”
by Michael Imhotep – 2-4-17
• Presented by Michael Imhotep, President of The African
History Network, Talk Show Host & Executive Producer of
The African History Network Show
• We focus on Educating, Empowering and Inspiring people
of African Descent in America and throughout the Diaspora.
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and presentations at, Kwanzaa Celebrations, African-
American History Month, Schools, Churches, etc.

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5. This presentation will focus on
The History Of
Black History Month, etc.
1. Deal with the origin Black History Month
2. Why was “Black History Month” created
3. How do we make it relevant for today
and the future?
4. Dispel myths regarding our history

6. Who was Imhotep?
• Pronounced (em-ho-tep) it means “he who comes in peace”
in the Medu Neter language of the Ancient Kemites
(Egyptians).
• High Priest, physician, architect, mathematician, designer of
the Step Pyramid at Saqqara for Pharaoh (Nswt Bity) Zoser
of the 3rd
Dynasty, known as The World’s 1st
Multi-Genius,
3,000 B.C. circa.

7. This is NOT Imhotep
• In the 2001 movie “The Mummy Returns” the
villain was named “Imhotep”, consequently many
of our children think that one of our greatest
Ancestors was evil and not of African descent.
Actor Arnold Vosloo as High Priest Imhotep

8. Designed by Imhotep
The Step Pyramid at Saqqara designed by Imhotep

9. Expanding your Circumference of
Awareness
The space inside this Circle
represents my realm of knowledge.
Everything that I think I know about
whatever I think I know is represented
within the Circumference of this
Circle. I must keep in mind that there
are still things to know that exist
outside the Circumference of my Own
Awareness.

10. 3 Reasons Why I Do This Presentation –
“You Don’t Have To Believe A Word I Say
– Go Do Your Own Historical Research”.
1. To make you think.
2. To provide the information, history,
resources, books, websites, articles,
video clips, etc. for your to do your own
research.
3. Behavior Modification – “Right
knowledge corrects wrong behavior”.

11. What was Richard Pryor trying
to tell us?
The Richard Pryor
Show, NBC 1977,
Egypt 1909

13. Who was here First? Why Haven’t we
been taught Ourstory?
Dr. David Imhotep
Holds the 1st
ever Phd in
Ancient African History
www.HistoricTruth.Info

14. The First Americans Were Africans:
Documented Evidence
Pg. 14 – Evidence of an African Presence
51,700 years ago in a campsite in Allendale County, South
Carolina discovered by Dr. Albert Goodyear.
- Artifacts - Genetic M174 - Skulls
- Architecture D Haploid Groups - Skeletons
- Campsites - Linguistics - Structures
- Carvings - Paintings - Tools
- Egyptian Writings
- Footprints in Lava
713 Footnotes documenting African people as the Indigenous People
of The Americas

15. Dr. David Imhotep, WKRP Channel 5
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16. Were did Columbus go on his 4 Voyages?
• 1st
Voyage – August 3rd
, 1492 - Nina, Pinta &
Santa Maria. Was in the Bahamas (San
Salvador, Cuba, Hispaniola) Hispanolo
• 2nd
Voyage – Sept. 1493 – West Indies and
Borinquen (Puerto Rico), Jamaica (1494)
• 3rd
Voyage – May 1498 – Trinidad and
Venezuelan mainland, South America
• 4th
Voyage – May 1504 – Panama and Honduras
(Central America), History.com

17. The Origin of the Word America
• “Fulcrums of Change” by Jan
Carew, pages 91-105
• Los Amereskkes coming from
• Amerrique
• Feb. 3rd
, 2016, Prof. Kaba
Kamene, “The Origin of The
Word America”, The Michael
Imhotep Show,
AfricanHistoryNetwork.com
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Prof. Kaba Kamene of
“Hidden Colors”

18. Noah Webster Dictionary
1828 Edition
• American
• AMER'ICAN, adjective Pertaining to America.
• AMER'ICAN, noun A native of America;
originally applied to the aboriginals, or copper-
colored races, found here by the Europeans; but
now applied to the descendants of Europeans
born in America.
• The name American must always exalt the pride
of patriotism. – Washington
• http://webstersdictionary1828.com/Dictionary/Americ
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19. Why is studying African History important?
• What you do for yourself,
to yourself and what you
allow other people to do
to you is based upon
what you think about
yourself.
• What you think about
yourself is based upon
what you have been
taught about yourself.
• What you have been
taught about everything
you have read, seen and
heard about yourself.
Runoko Rashidi – Historian, Author,
Lecturer
Featured in “Hidden Colors 2”

20. What is Power?
“Power” is the ability to define and shape
reality and to have other people accept your
definition of reality as if it were there own.”
From the Latin word “potere”
which means “to be able”.
Dr. Wade Nobles
Psychologist

21. How did Racism start?
If you don’t understand European White
Supremacy, what it is and how it works,
everything else that you understand will
only confuse you.
Dr. Neely Fuller
Dr. Frances
Cress Welsing

22. Morgan Freeman on
60 Minutes, 2006
• Black History Month is? “…ridiculous”
• When is White History Month?
• When is Jewish History Month?
• You’re going to relegate my history to a
month?
• If we want to get rid of Racism we need to
stop talking about it.

24. The Father of Black History Month
December 9th
, 1875 – April 4th
, 1950

25. Dr. Carter. G. Woodson
• Born to parents who were former slaves in Virginia.
• Starts High School at the age of 19 years old.
• He graduates from Berea College in Kentucky in 1903.
• 1905 - General Superintendent of Education in Manila,
Philippines for the U.S. Bureau of Insular Affairs. He taught
English, Health & Agriculture. He also travels to Asia, North
African and Europe in 1907.
• He graduates from University of Chicago, 1907, B.A. & 1908
M.A.
• Teaches High School in Washington D.C. 1909-1919

26. Dr. Carter. G. Woodson (Cont’d)
• Earns a Phd. In History from Harvard University in 1912.
• 1915 – Attends a 3 week Celebration Commemorating the
50Th
Anniversary of The Emancipation Proclamation
• He decides to create an organization to promote the
Scientific Study of Black Life and History!
• Sept. 9th
, 1915 – He meets 4 friends at a Wabash YMCA to
form ASNLH.
• 1916 – The Journal of Negro Life and History is started.
• 1919-1922 – Prof. at Howard University and Dean of the
School of Liberal Arts, Dean of School of Lib. Arts, West
Virginia Collegiate Inst.

27. Why Do We Celebrate Black
History Month?
• Why was Black History Month created?
• Negro History Week was created in 1926
by Dr. Carter G. Woodson, Co-Founder of
The Association for the Study of Negro
Life and History. Later changed to Black
History Month in 1976.
• Why is it celebrated in February?

28. Dr. Carter. G. Woodson (Cont’d) 3
• 1920 – Urges African-American Civic organizations to
promote our achievements.
• 1924- Omega Psi Phi starts Negro History & Literature
Week (Negro Achievement Week).
• 1925 – Sends out Press Release Announcing “Negro
History Week” in Feb. 1926, 2nd
week in Feb.
• Dr. Woodson believed that history was made by people not
primarily by great men.
• The 1920’s – Decade of the “New Negro”. (Post WW I
Generation)
• Negro History Week Also focused on African History

29. Early Themes from ASNLH
• 1928 - Civilization: A World Achievement
• 1933 - Ethiopia Meets Error in Truth
• 1935 - The Negro Achievements in Africa
• 1936 - African Background Outlined
• 1960 - Strengthening America Through Education in
Negro History and African Culture
• 1971 - African Civilization and Culture: A Worthy
Historical Background
• Visit www.ASALH.org

30. Myths About Black History Month
• Why do we have the shortest month of the year?
• A month is not enough to study our history
• June is Black Music Month
• When is White History Month?
• Visit www.ASALH.org

31. Dr. Carter G. Woodson
(cont’d)
• 1940s – Efforts slowly began within the African-
American community to expand the study of
African-American History in the schools. In
West Virginia, African-Americans began to
celebrate Negro History Month.
• 1960s – African-American students on college
campuses learn about our history and links to
Africa and replaced Negro History Week with
Black History Month.

32. What is Culture
• Traditions, spiritual systems, art, music,
dance, folklore, mythology, cosmology,
language, educational system, etc.
• Culture acts a an “Immune System” which
keeps foreign elements from coming in
and attacking you.

33. Thoughts from Dr. Woodson
• In a Journal of Negro History Article, Woodson
called prejudice “the logical result of tradition,
the inevitable outcome of thorough instruction to
the effect that the Negro has never contributed
anything to the progress of mankind”
• He predicted “the achievements of the Negro
properly set forth will crown him as a factor in
early human progress and a maker of modern
civilization.”

34. “When you control a man’s thinking you do
not have to worry about his actions. You
don’t not have to tell him not to stand here
or
Go yonder. He will find his “proper place”
and will stay in it. You do not need to send
him to the back door. He will go without
being told. In fact, if there is no back door,
he will cut one for his special benefit. His
education makes it necessary.”
- Dr. Carter G. Woodson, 1933
The Mis-Education Of The Negro

35. Groundbreaking Research
• The “Journal of Negro History” covered a
wide range of topics and let to a shift from
the “Master’s” perspective of history to that
of the “Slave’s” perspective.
• Woodson and other Journal contributors
used census data, birth & death
certificates, marriage registers, letters,
diaries, and oral histories to investigate
our history. These methods have only
recently been widely adopted by
historians.

36. The Mis-Education Of The Negro
“History shows that it does not matter who
is in power…those who have not learned to
do for themselves and have to depend
solely on others never obtain any more rights or
privileges in the end than they had in the
beginning”
- Dr. Carter G. Woodson, 1933

37. Other Monthly Cultural Celebrations
• Jewish American History Month - May
• National Hispanic History Month – Sept. 15th
-
Oct.15th
• Irish American History Month – March
• Asian-American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month -
May
• Haitian Heritage Month - May
• Native American History Month – Nov.
• Hispanic Heritage Month – Sept. 15th
– Oct. 15th
• German American/Polish American Heritage Month
– October
Compiled by Michael Imhotep www.AfricanHistoryNetwork.com
Source www.Brownielocks.com

38. The Pyramid Principle – Tools to
help in our Analysis - Foundation
Dr. Leonard Jeffries
Systems Analysis vs.
Paralysis of Analysis

39. What is Culture?
• Traditions, spiritual systems, art, music, dance,
folklore, mythology, cosmology, language,
educational system, etc.
• Culture acts a an “Immune System” which keeps
foreign elements from coming in and attacking
you.
• Culture is the glue or cohesiveness that binds a
people together and tells them the only way they
will survive is through self reliance.

40. Were Slaves Really Unskilled?
• Crafts, Artisans, Skills Slaves had prior to 1865 –
The Other Slaves: Mechanics, Artisans &
Craftsmen – 1978, James Newton, Ronald Lewis
1. Anchor makers
2. Artists
3. Bakers
4. Barrel makers
5. Bartenders
6. Basket makers
7. Beer makers
8. Blacksmiths
9. Bricklayers
10. Brick makers
11. Cabinet makers
12. Cigar makers
13. Cooks
14. Coppersmiths
15. Decorative
Furnishers
16. Fishermen
17. Engineers
18. Gardeners
19. Hemp Baggers
20. Herb Doctors
21. Horse Trainers
22. Hunters
23. Locksmiths

41. Remember, what you do for yourself is based
upon what you think about yourself!
“In the schools of business
administration Negroes are
trained excessively in the
psychology and economics of
Wall Street and are, therefore,
made to despise the
opportunities to run ice
wagons, push banana carts,
and sell peanuts among their
own people. Foreigners, who
have not studied economics,
but have studied Negroes,
take up this business and
grow rich.” Dr. Carter G. Woodson, “The Miseducation of
The Negro”, 1933

43. Paradigm Shift
• Is Black History part of American History
or is American History part of African
History?

44. We Are At War!! Everyone knows
this except us!!
• African people have been at War since at
least 1492 and have been at war with
European forces for over 500 years.
• The WAR NEVER ENDED. It just
changed it’s form.
• The 13th
Amendment continued the WAR
• In 1982 – The WAR ON DRUGS
escalated the WAR Against African
People

45. How did Racism start?
• The term “race” 1st
started being used in the 16th
century.
Source: “PowerNomics” by Dr. Claud Anderson,
pg. 6-7
• The concept of “race” evolved over a 300 year
period of time from the 16th
– 18th
century.
• It’s a power structure. It’s not hating or not liking
someone.
• It occurs when 1 race controls the majority of the
wealth, power and resources and uses it to harm
others.

46. • Racism is a system that distributes the
advantages and privileges based upon
Race.
• Racism is a Power Structure coming out of
European White Supremacy.
What is Racism?

47. How did Racism start?
• The cornerstone of racism was laid in
America in 1638 in the colony of Maryland
with “The Doctrine of Exclusion”.
• Racism, Prejudice. Discrimination and
Bigotry are 4 different things.

48. “All history is a
current event.
Everything that
has ever
happened
continues to
happen in some
shape, form or
fashion.
Dr. John Henrik Clarke
Grandmaster Scholar Warrior

49. What Freed The Slaves?
• Was it The Emancipation Proclamation or
the 13th
Amendment that Freed the
Slaves?
• What has re-enslaved African-Americans

50. What Freed The Slaves?
• The 13th
Amendment – Dec. 6th
, 1865
Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary
Servitude, except as a punishment for crime
Whereof the party shall have been duly
Convicted, shall exist within the United
States, or any place subject to their
Jurisdiction.

51. Was John Hanson the African-
American or Moor the 1st
President?

52. John Hanson, Fact or Fiction
• Delegate to the Continental Congress
from 1780-1782.
• He serves a Continental Congress
President from 1781-1782.
• He dies in 1783
• Some mistakenly also say that he was a
Sen. to Liberia.
• Was John Hanson on the $2 Bill?

53. John Hanson, Fact or Fiction
• When were cameras invented?
• The picture is a Daguerreotype from ca.
1856

55. Sen. John Hanson

56. Who’s on the $2 Bill

57. • Is this John
Hanson or Prince
Hall or another
person of African
Descent?

58. • There’s a
shadow on the
original
painting which
gets mistaken
for an African
man.

59. Drafting of the Declaration of
Independence, June 28th
, 1776

60. Will the real Isis please stand up!

61. Was Africa Named After a Roman
General named Scipio Africanus?
Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus
236 B.C. – 183 B.C.

64. Words of wisdom from Malcolm X
“Education is our passport to the
future, for tomorrow belongs to those
who prepare for it today?”

65. Available at
AfricanHistoryNetwork.com

69. Dr. King, Garvey & Malcolm X
What did they have in common?

71. Sources
1) PowerNomics by Dr. Claud Anderson
2) Black Labor, White Wealth by Dr. Claud Anderson
3) Dirty Little Secrets Vol. 1 by Dr. Claud Anderson
4) The First Americans Were Africans – Documented
Evidence
5) Before The Mayflower
6) Nile Valley Contributions To Civilization
7) “The Origins of Black History Month” by Prof. Dary
Michael Soctt, Howard University, www.ASALH.org.