Known today as the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), the group sponsored a national Negro History week in 1926, choosing the second week of February to coincide with the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. Moorland founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASNLH), an organization dedicated to researching and promoting achievements by Black Americans and other peoples of African descent. Woodson and the prominent minister Jesse E. That September, the Harvard-trained historian Carter G.
The story of Black History Month begins in 1915, half a century after the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
