It’s Black History Month! One of my favorite months of the year!
Black History Month originated with historian Carter G. Woodson in 1926. In that year, he announced that the second week of February would be called “Negro History Week”. He chose the second week of February because it coincided with Abraham Lincoln’s birthday (February 12th) and Frederick Douglass’s birthday (February 14th).
So here’s the today in #BlackHistory for February 1st. On February 1, 1960, four North Carolina A&T students begin the Sit-in Movement at the lunch counter of a Greensboro, North Carolina five-and-dime store.
