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Polk County proclaims February 2025 Black History Month; local leaders urge continued community focus
Summary
Polk County supervisors read and approved a Black History Month proclamation and heard brief remarks from Wilkie House, Jordan House Museum and Sixth Avenue Corridor leaders highlighting local history, youth programming and business diversity.
Polk County supervisors read a proclamation designating February 2025 as Black History Month and invited local leaders to speak about the county’s African American history and ongoing community programs.
The proclamation notes the 1915 founding of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History and the 1976 expansion of Black History Week into Black History Month, and it names Fort Des Moines and the Jordan House among local sites tied to Polk County’s Black history.
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