Post Date: February 1, 2023

Black History denotes; in 1926, the event grew out of what was called “Negro History Week” as a result of noted historian Carter G. Woodson and other well-known African-Americans. Its significance was; Mr. Woodson chose that week specifically because it covered the birthdays of Frederick Douglass (February 14) and Abraham Lincoln (February 12). Since 1976, every U.S. president has officially designated the month of February as Black History Month.

Most African-Americans are the descendants of Africans forcibly brought to and held captive in the United States from 1555 to 1865. Slavery, in America, began when the first African slaves were brought to the North American colony of Jamestown, Virginia [in 1619] to aid in the production of such lucrative crops as tobacco.

President Abraham Lincoln announced the Emancipation Proclamation, which granted freedom to slaves in Confederate states, on New Year's Day in 1863. Though President Lincoln ended slavery with the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation; slaves in Texas had no knowledge of their freedom until two and a half years later. News of the emancipation was suppressed due to the overwhelming influence of the slaves' owners. The last slaves were not freed until General Gordon Granger rode into Galveston, Texas and issued the General Order No. 3 on June 19, 1865.

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