February 7th

On this day,

Dr. Carter G. Woodson started the first Negro History Week to “extend and deepen the study and scholarship on Black History” in 1926.  Decades later, it was expanded to cover the whole of February.  He chose the middle of February because America celebrated the birthdays of former president Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass, two towering figures in this history.

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