ACC honors Black History Month with a series of events at campuses districtwide. The Black Student Success Committee, Texas Association of Black Personnel in Higher Education, and African American-Cultural Center are co-hosting these events, which are free and open to the community. Please check back here throughout the month as more events are added.

2020 Theme: African Americans and the Vote
The year 2020 marks the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment and the culmination of the women’s suffrage movement.  The year 2020 also marks the sesquicentennial of the Fifteenth Amendment (1870) and the right of black men to the ballot after the Civil War.  The theme speaks, therefore, to the ongoing struggle on the part of both black men and black women for the right to vote. This theme has a rich and long history. Through voting-rights campaigns and legal suits from the turn of the twentieth century to the mid-1960s, African Americans made their voices heard as to the importance of the vote. The theme of the vote also includes the rise of black elected and appointed officials at the local and national levels, campaigns for equal rights legislation, and the role of blacks in traditional and alternative political parties.