The Origin of Black History Month—And Why it Still Matters [yesmagazine.org]
By Lonnie G. Bunch III, Yes!, February 5, 2021 No one has played a greater role in helping all Americans know the Black past than Carter G. Woodson, the individual who created Negro History Week in Washington, D.C., in February 1926. Woodson was the second Black American to receive a Ph.D. in history from Harvard—following W.E.B. Du Bois by a few years. To Woodson, the Black experience was too important simply to be left to a small group of academics. Woodson believed that his role was to...