Why is black history month celebrated in the shortest month?

Question

okay, im doin this for rotc, can someone plz tell me the answer or why they think so..ty

Answer 1

Why is there a black history month?? Why isn't there a white history month??

Answer 2

Hahaha, because it is the shortest month. We want to get on with it, why should you care? It's White History month, 11 months of the year, I think we can let them have just 1, they should be thankful they got one. Whether its short or a longer month

BTW, I'm not racist or predjudice

Answer 3

We owe the celebration of Black History Month to Dr. Carter G. Woodson. Born to parents who were former slaves, he worked in the Kentucky coal mines as a child and enrolled in high school at age twenty. He graduated in two years and later went on to earn a Ph.D. from Harvard. As a student, he was disturbed to find that history books largely ignored the black American population. If blacks were mentioned at all, it was generally in ways that reflected the inferior social position they were assigned at the time.

Woodson decided to take on the challenge of writing black Americans into the nation's history. He established the 'Association for the Study of ***** Life and History' in 1915; later re-named to the 'Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History' (ASALH) . In 1916, he founded the widely respected 'Journal of ***** History'. In 1926, he launched ***** History Week to bring national attention to the contributions of black people throughout American history.

Woodson chose the second week of February for ***** History Week because it corresponded to the birthdays of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln, two men who greatly impacted the American black population. In 1976, the Association succeeded in expanding the observance, which then became Black History Month.

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