Black History Month
- Andrew J. Bramlett
- Feb 1, 2023
- 1 min read
Today marks the start of Black History Month. When the celebration was first created in 1926, it was around the birthdays of Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. The event’s creator was Carter G. Woodson. It became a month in the 1970s.
Image: “Proud American: Freedom and Possibility, 1862-1962” by the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (1962). From the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Art and Artifacts Division, New York Public Library
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