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Black History Month Accomplishments

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Black History Month is a yearly commemoration of accomplishments by Black
Americans and recognize them for their achievements and their inventions. Their inventions helped the United States throughout history and even in modern days. This occurrence grew out of Negro History Week the creator was a Historian named Carter G.
Woodson and other African Americans. During 1976 every U.S president has officially designated February as Black History Month. Around the world in other countries the
Black History Month is celebrated.
Black History month started in 1915, half a century after the thirteenth amendment to put an end to slavery in the United States. The september in 1915 the Harvard Historian
Carter Godwin Woodson and the minister Jesse E.
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