This celebration of African Americans' roles in American History was originated in 1926 by historian Carter G. Woodson as "Negro History Week" and was later expanded to the entire month.
Woodson chose February because it marked the birthdays of two Americans who greatly influenced the lives and social condition of African Americans: President Abraham Lincoln and abolitionist Frederick Douglass.

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