Margaret Mead

February is Black History Month. This annual celebration started in 1926. Dr. Carter G. Woodson organized the first annual Negro History Week in February 1926. Over time the week-long celebration evolved into Black History Month. Dr. Woodson wanted our country to celebrate the contributions blacks have made to our country throughout history.

While Margaret Mead did not specifically address the establishment of Black History Month, she might have had this to say, “If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.”