Black History Month, or National African American History Month, is a yearly festival of accomplishments by dark Americans and a period for accepting contribution of African Americans in U.S. history. The occasion became out of “Negro History Week,” the brainchild of noted student of history Carter G. Woodson and other noticeable African Americans. Since 1976, each U.S. president has formally assigned the time of February as Black History Month. Different nations around the globe, including Canada and the United Kingdom, likewise give a month to celebrating Black history.
The story of Black History Month starts in 1915, a large portion of a century after the Thirteenth Amendment abrogated subjugation in the United States. That September, the Harvard-prepared student of history Carter G. Woodson and the noticeable priest Jesse E. Moorland established the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASNLH), an association committed to inquiring about and advancing accomplishments by dark Americans and different people groups of African drop. Referred to today as the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), the gathering supported a national Negro History week in 1926, picking the second week of February to match with the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. The occasion roused schools and groups across the country to compose neighborhood festivities, build up history clubs and host exhibitions and addresses.
From that point, each American president has assigned February as Black History Month.
