The National Center for State Courts joins in the celebration and recognition of the individual and collective struggles, perseverance and achievements from the past to the present and into the future.
Black History Month
Carter G. Woodson, along with the organization he founded, the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), first conceived and announced Black History Week in 1925, which corresponded with the birthdays of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln. In 1976, the celebration was expanded to include the entire month of February and made an official nationally recognized event.