"There was no sinister reason for February's selection," said Burnis R. Morris, a professor of journalism and mass communications at Marshall University and a biographer of Carter G. Woodson, the creator of Negro History Week who'd later be called "The Father of Black History Month."
"Sixty years after the end of slavery, those contributions had largely been ignored in history books, or worse, distorted and misrepresented," said LaGarrett King, a professor and director of the Center for K-12 Black History and Racial Literacy Education at the University at Buffalo.
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