Reading Time: < 1 minute The first recognition of Black History week happened in Toronto 1950Black History Month started in 1926 as Negro History Week in the United States by Dr. Carter G. Woodson, a Harvard-trained historian of African Americans and is commemorated on the second week of February. His initiative caught the attention of those in the Black community and politicians who seized on the momentum and eventually in 1976 Congress declared Black History Month as a national day of observance. Here in Canada, it wasn’t until Member of Parliament Jean Augustine, introduced a motion in the ...