What we now call Black History Month was originated in 1926 by Carter Godwin Woodson as Negro History Week. The month of February was selected in deference to Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln who were both born in that month.
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Hi, I’m studying Women of History Through Women at Kaplan University Online Communications Program and this article was informative. Thanks Michal
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Thanks Mary Bellis for the reminder.
So many people have to be reminded about history.
As black women in the Hampton Training School for Nurses @ Dixie Hospital , we fought for our rights
from 1890-1956 and when jobs opened for black nurses,it was 1972,after we were all not working in the hospitals.This is history people needed to be reminded of.