Every month is "Black History Month" here at BlackPast.org.  Nonetheless we recognize that hundreds of thousands of our visitors specifically seek out the website for information on African American history during the month of February.   We have gathered much of that data that may be helpful for teachers, students, and the general public who want to participate in the various celebrations or commemorations or who simply want to use that time to reflect on the history of black people.  Those resources appear below:

Black History Month Special Features

2013: Blacks in Classical Music

2012: Scientists and Technicians of the Manhattan Project, 1941-1945

2011: The Tuskegee Airmen

Creating Black History Month

The History of Black History Month by Daryl Michael Scott, Vice President of Programs, Association for the Study of African American Life and History, Department Chair, History, Howard University

The Association for the Study of African American Life and History: A Brief History by Malik Simba, California State University, Fresno

Dr. Carter G. Woodson by Dr. Pero Gaglo Dagbovie, Michigan State University

Video of the Life of Carter G. Woodson by the University of Virginia 

Celebrate the Triumph of Ordinary Black Americans by Dr. John H. McWorter, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute for PolicyResearch

Major Books on Black History Month

Jacqueline Ann Goggin, Carter G. Woodson: A Life in Black History (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1993)

Lorenzo J. Greene and Arvarh E. Strickland, Working with Carter G. Woodson, the Father of Black History, A Diary, 1928-1930 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1989)

Pero Gaglo Dagbovie, The Early Black History Movement: Carter G. Woodson and Lorenzo Johnston Greene (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007)

Other Pioneers in African American History

Dr. John  Hope Franklin

Dr. Lorenzo Greene

Sara Jackson

William C. Nell

Dorothy Porter Wesley

George Washington Williams

Resources for Black History Month

Association for the Study of African American Life and History

Teacher Vision.com

National Visionary Leadership Project

Black History Month at History.com

U.S. Government Resources for Black History Month

Gale-Cengage Learning: Free Resources for Black History Month

National Center for the Humanities--Black History Month

African American History Month

A&E Biography.com--Celebrate Black History Month

Westfield State College Ely Library--Black History Month Web Resources

Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project--For Teachers

Citizenship and Immigration Canada--Black History Month

Duke University Medical Center--Black History Month: A Medical Perspective

U.S. Census Bureau--Black (African-American) History Month

General Board of Discipleship, United Methodist Church

Infoplease - Black History Month

Black History Month in Great Britain