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The 28-day reminder that one month never contained 400 years of story.
means An annual February observance honoring the achievements, struggles, and contributions of Black people throughout history.
from Began as Negro History Week in 1926, dreamed up by historian Carter G. Woodson, who timed it to bracket Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln's February birthdays; expanded to a full month in 1976.
FounderCarter G. Woodson, second Black Harvard PhD.
Why FebruaryAnchored on Douglass and Lincoln birthdays.
Goes globalUK observes it in October instead.
Official 1976Ford recognized it during America's bicentennial.