To UMD community members, 100 years of Black History Month signifies strength, resilience
This year is the 100th anniversary of the celebration, which the historian Carter Woodson started as “Negro History Week” in February 1926 to honor the accomplishments of Black Americans, resisting the societal pressures of the Jim Crow era. In 1976, the now-Association for the Study of African American Life and History declared February as Black History Month.
