Black History Month Here today, Gone tomorrow

February marks the beginning of Black History Month - an annual celebration that has existed for 87 years. Much of the credit can go to Harvard Scholar Dr. Carter G. Woodson. In 1926 Woodson organized the first annual Negro History Week, which took place during the second week of February. Many wonder why choose the shortest month of the year. Primarily because the birthdays of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln were in Febuary and both men greatly impacted the black population.