Black History Month.

Black history month is an annual celebration of achievements  by black Americans and a time for recognizing the central role of African Americans in U.S. history. The event grew out of “Negro History Week,” the brainchild of noted historian Carter G. Woodson and other prominent African Americans. Since 1976, every U.S. president has officially designated the month of February as Black History Month. The story of Black History Month begins in 1915: Carter G. Woodson and the prominent minister Jesse E. Moorland founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History. They sponsored a National Negro History Week in 1926, choosing the second week of February to coincide with the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. By the late 1960s, thanks in part to the Civil Rights Movement,Negro History Week had evolved into Black History Month. President Gerald R. Ford officially recognized Black History Month in 1976.