When is black history month february

WASHINGTON -- Beginning Feb. 1, schools, museums and communities across the nation will mark the start of Black History Month –- a celebration of Black history, culture and education.

The history of the month dates back almost a century, and the way it is celebrated and evolved has created history in itself.

Black History Month wasn’t always a monthlong celebration. In February 1926, historian and author Carter G.

Woodson created Negro History Week.

How is black history month celebrated

It was a weeklong celebration in an effort to teach people about African-American history and the contributions of Black people.

This effort was made under the umbrella of an organization he founded in September 1915 called the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, or ASALH.

“I think Black folks understood what they had contributed to America’s historical narrative, but no one was talking about it,” said Kaye Whitehead, the organization's president. “No one was centralizing it until Dr.

Carter G. Woodson was in 1926.”

After he p

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