1926 Carter G Woodson ~ (the Father of Black History) initiates “Negro History Week” 1960 First sit-in ~ Black college students stage a sit-in at a segregated lunch counter in Greensboro, NC, beginning the first of the historic sit-ins of the 1960s 1990 Ida B Wells ~ (reformer who first gathered statistical records on lynchings […]
Historian, educator, author, publisher and founder of Black History Month
