Negro History Week was created by Dr. Carter G. Woodson in 1926 because white people, who had once forced Black people into enslavement, were not teaching about Black people in American history. Slavery was over, but racial terror, lynch mobs and segregation were still in place. White Americans were being racist and divisive, so Black people fought to get their stories told themselves. They knew how important their contributions and achievements were even though white people refused to recognize them.
