Black History Month: Paying Homage February was not given to us, as some like to state, when discussing the observance of Black History Month (BHM). Originally, introduced as Negro History Week by Dr. Carter G. Woodson, in 1926, the month was placed during the second week of February to commemorate the birthdays of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln. In the 1970s it expanded to Black History Month with the activism of student leaders at Kent State and other lobbying efforts. Nothing was given, it was the consistent radical efforts by Black communities to institutionalize BHM.
Posted on: Mon, 03 Feb 2014 15:19:51 +0000
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