“Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history” Carter G. Woodson
Carter G Woodson, the father of Black History Month, in 1915, established the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History because he noticed that the role that blacks played in American history was missing or misrepresented. A year later, he established the Journal of Negro History now known as the Journal of African-American History.
By 1926, he proposed the observance of “Black History Week” in February to correspond with the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. This observation became Black History Month. You can read more about Dr. Woodson’s great accomplishments at https://asalh.org/.
Today, we still struggle as Dr. Woodson did to make sure that the correct history of blacks is taught in our schools. Revisionist historians casually change and alter history to cover-up ideology and atrocities committed by the real villains in history.