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[[Carter G. Woodson]] is credited with establishing Black History Month. In 1926, he began promoting ''Negro History Week'' during the second week of February to celebrate the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass, two American leaders who had great impact on the history of Black Americans.  Later, in the early 1960s it became Black History Month.  He was dismayed to find in his studies that history books largely ignored the black American population, and when blacks were mentioned, it was generally in a way that reflected the inferior social position they were assigned at the time, and not very accurate in its depiction of some of the Black luminaries in science and the arts. <ref>http://www.kn.att.com/wired/BHM/index.html

[[Carter G. Woodson]] is credited with establishing Black History Month. In 1926, he began promoting ''Negro History Week'' during the second week of February to celebrate the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass, two American leaders who had great impact on the history of Black Americans.  Later, in the early 1960s it became Black History Month.  He was dismayed to find in his studies that history books largely ignored the black American population, and when blacks were mentioned, it was generally in a way that reflected the inferior social position they were assigned at the time, and not very accurate in its depiction of some of the Black luminaries in science and the arts.<ref>http://www.kn.att.com/wired/BHM/index.html

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*February 25, 1870:  The first black U.S. senator, Hiram R. Revels (1822-1901), took his oath of office.  

*February 25, 1870:  The first black U.S. senator, Hiram R. Revels (1822-1901), took his oath of office.  

*February 12, 1909:  The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was founded by a group of concerned black and white citizens in New York City.  

*February 12, 1909:  The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was founded by a group of concerned black and white citizens in New York City.  

*February 1, 1960:  In what would become a civil-rights movement milestone, a group of black Greensboro, N.C., college students began a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter. <ref>http://www.infoplease.com/spot/bhmintro1.html</ref>

*February 1, 1960:  In what would become a civil-rights movement milestone, a group of black Greensboro, N.C., college students began a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter.<ref>http://www.infoplease.com/spot/bhmintro1.html</ref>

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[[Category: Civil Rights]]

[[Category:Civil Rights]]

[[Category:Black History]]

[[Category:Black History]]