On February 10, 1976, President Gerald R. Ford issued a message recognizing Black History Month, becoming the first President to do so. The moment was decades in the making. In 1926 historian, author, and activist Dr. Carter G. Woodson introduced “Negro History Week.” Woodson, who had founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (now the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, ASALH) ten years earlier, chose the month of February to honor the birthdays of two prominent abolitionists: Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln. The holiday gained national recognition in the 1960s, when activists of the Civil Rights Movement brought Negro History Week to college campuses across the country.
Taken from: https://ford.blogs.archives.gov/2024/02/01/recognition-of-black-history-month/
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