black history month

As most people know febuary is black history month. Besides the usual complaints about the fact that it is the shortest month of the year i have some problems with it. Having a black history month is great becuase it gets people to learn somethings about black history however, this leads many schools to only teach black history during this month. My school had a very diverese population and it sucks that we only learned black history for one month. African Americans have played a huge role in American History with leaders such as Fredrick Douglass, Sojurner Truth, Harriet Tubman all being active members of the abolitionist movement for instance. This movement is a big part of US history and these people should be given the same attention as the founding fathers i believe. It seeems that in English classes the African American literature only came out in febuary as well. I think that teachers should not feel a need to do more african american studies in febuary becuase it would ruin the information that they would teach. I jsut wish that African AMerican studies were taught more through the whole year in schools becuase BLACK history IS USA history.