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Forty-five years ago, President Gerald Ford
called upon the public to seize the opportunity to honor
the too-often neglected accomplishments of Black Americans in every
area of endeavor throughout our history. It was then he
officially established February as Black History Month. President
Ford s declaration was preceded by significant advocacy and the
dedicated work of Carter G. Woodson and Jesse E. Moorland, who
spent decades archiving and chronicling the achievements and
accomplishments of historically significant Black and
African-Americans. According to
History.com:
The story of Black History Month begins in 1915,
February 26, 2021
Black History Month should be a great celebration for all Americans, not just those of us who are black. Unfortunately, the pride I felt about it as a child in the late 1970s has almost dissipated. That’s because instead of honoring those who truly made black history into American history, corporate media, corporations and the politically left have appropriated this tradition into a vehicle for virtual signaling.
President Gerald Ford decreed Black History Month a national observance in 1976, a year that marked the fiftieth anniversary of the first iteration of Black History Month. Black History Month evolved from the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History’s “Negro History Week,” which began in 1926. Harvard-trained historian Carter G. Woodson and minister Jesse E. Moorland chose the second week of February to coincide with the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass.
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In 1926, Carter G. Woodson, a Harvard-trained historian, and Jesse E. Moorland, a minister, founders of what is now known as the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), celebrated the first Negro History week. By the late 1960s, the week had evolved into Black History Month. Black History Month, celebrated every February in the U.S., is an opportunity to highlight the vast accomplishments and achievements of Black Americans. Amid the celebrations and history lessons is the underlying reminder that Black History is American History.
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Fifty years after the end of the U.S. Civil War and during the height of horrific lynchings of Black people in the Deep South by KKK terror the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History was founded in 1915 by Dr. Carter Woodson and Rev. Jesse E. Moorland to research and promote the individual contributions of people of African descent, both inside the U.S. and throughout the African diaspora.
The ASNLH launched a national “Negro History Week” in February 1926. Fifty years later in 1976, due to the influence of the Civil Rights Movement, this “Week” officially evolved into Black History Month in the U.S.