At Your Library: Black History Month speakers
The predecessor to Black History Month was Negro History Week, created in 1926 by historian Carter G. Woodson.Woodson chose the second week of February because it coincided with the birthdates of both Abraham Lincoln on the 12th and Frederick Douglass on the 14th.Black History Month was first proposed by students at Kent State University in 1969, and in 1976, it was officially recognized by President Gerald Ford, who urged all Americans to “seize the opportunity to honor the […]
