Tags

Posts tagged with "Black History Month"

History Comes to Life

By: Krista Crow kcrow

Feb 25 2013
wax_figures.jpg
Featured Picture:  wax_figures.jpg This year for Black History Month, Southwest teamed up with The National Great Blacks in Wax Museum to ... read more

Heroes in the Hangar

By: Sarah Bickle sbickle

Mar 06 2012
here_brooks6.jpg
Featured Picture:  here_brooks6.jpg Some of you know that February is Black History month, and probably slightly fewer of you know ... read more

Black History Month: Education is Empowerment

By: Karen Price Ward Karen Price Ward

Feb 28 2011
af_am_tour_at_white_house.jpg
Featured Picture:  af_am_tour_at_white_house.jpg In celebration of Black History Month, my Team, the Southwest Airlines Community Affairs & Grassroots Department sponsored The ... read more

The Origins of Black History Month

By: Bernard Kinsey, Founder the Kinsey Collection bkinsey

Feb 22 2011
Black History Month as we know it now, began in 1926 as Negro History Week, founded by Dr. Carter G. Woodson. He never saw it as a one-week-a-year affair but something to be taught constantly. He believed that Black History was too important to America and the world to be crammed into a limited time frame. 926 ... read more

Black History Month: Diversity at Southwest Airlines

By: Merina Hampton, Flight Attendant mhampton

Feb 21 2011
During Black History month, I take pride in acknowledging our Great Leaders who began the “Journey to Freedom.” Those freedoms include the freedom to education, the advancement of humanity, the understanding that one’s civility becomes the character of one’s existence. 725 ... read more