Daquan Freeman, 19, of Schenectady, center, sings a song in honor of his grandmother Daisy Smythe with help from friends at the YWCA's Annual Black History & Unsung Heroine Award ceremony in 2012.
Daquan Freeman, 19, of Schenectady, center, sings a song in honor of his grandmother Daisy Smythe with help from friends at the YWCA's Annual Black History & Unsung Heroine Award ceremony in 2012.
SCRAPBOOK - Black History Month has started; This Capital Region Scrapbook puts past Black History Month participants and familiar faces back in the newspaper.
Gazette file photos by Marc Schultz, Bruce Squiers, Meredith L. Kaiser, Stacey Lauren-Kennedy, Hans Pennink and Patrick Dodson.
James Garrett, 16, right, shakes hands with Albany Mayor Jerry Jennings after a Black History Month event at Union Missionary Baptist Church in Albany in 2012.
Daquan Freeman, 19, of Schenectady, center, sings a song in honor of his grandmother Daisy Smythe with help from friends at the YWCA's Annual Black History & Unsung Heroine Award ceremony in 2012.
Vennette Graham, 18, of Schenectady, a parishioner of Refreshing Spring Church in Schenectady, sings "Amazing Grace" during the Schenectady YWCA's Black History Month celebration on Sunday, February 6, 2005.Â
Dr. Raouf Mama of Benin, West Africa, speaks at the Nott Memorial at Union College in February 2001 as part of Schenectady's Black History Month observance. A professor of English at Eastern Connecticut State University, Mama was a writer and student of traditional culture.Â
Dorothy A. Brewer smiles as she and 14 other Black educators are saluted at Albany City Hall in February 2001, part of Black History Month observation. Brewer worked in eight city schools as a substitute and full-time teacher during her career.
