The African-American Story and the Evolution of Black History Month
Dark History Month has been perceived each February for as far back as a big number of folks can recollect, however too few realize how everything became. For that, we'd like to travel right back to 1915 and a refined man named Carter G. Woodson. An alum of the University of Chicago, with a doctorate from Harvard, he's referred to as the "Father of Black History Month." Throughout the late spring of that year, he participated during a celebration of liberation in D.C. alongside an enormous number of others and left away so roused that he found out the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASNLH). After one year, he established The Journal of Negro History. His central goal: To advance the accomplishments of his kin. Looking for far more noteworthy effect, in 1924, he and a couple of companions made Negro History and Literature Week, later renamed Negro Achievement Week. That was circled back to a politician statement reporting Negro History Week to