NAACP stated on its website.Woodson originally came up with the idea of Negro History Week to encourage Black Americans to become more interested in their own history and heritage and it was established in 1926.
Woodson chose February for Negro History Week because it had the birthdays of President Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass.
Lincoln was born on Feb. 12, and Douglass, a former slave who did not know his exact birthday, celebrated his on Feb. 14.Jalen and Keyonna Seawright dressed up their two daughters to model Black female leaders for Black History Month.Among other leaders, Lincoln and Douglass have been praised within the Black community for their accomplishments.
In 1862, Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, which engineered the end of slavery. Douglass was a national leader of the abolitionist movement.