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How did Black History Month came about?-and why it’s celebrated in February?

Posted on: 1st February,2022

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Each February, the U.S. praises the commitments and penances of African Americans who have helped shape the country.
He assigned the second seven day stretch of February as Negro History Week and stirred individual antiquarians through the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, which he established in 1915. (
For what reason do we observe Black History Month in February?
Lincoln and Douglass were each brought into the world in the second seven day stretch of February, so it was generally when African Americans would hold festivities out of appreciation for liberation, Kaplan said
“Dark History Month shouldn’t be treated like it is some way or another different from our aggregate American history or some way or another just reduced to an assemblage of most prominent hits from the March on Washington or from a portion of our games legends,” Obama said.
“It’s with regards to the lived, shared insight of every African American, high and low, popular and dark, and how those encounters have formed and tested and at last reinforced America,” he proceeded.