The Beginning Of A Better Life

Black history month honours the contributions of African Americans to U.S. history.

The celebrations began as "Negro History Week," created in 1926 by Carter G. Woodson, a noted African American historian, scholar, educator and publisher. In 1976, it became a month-long ce...

• After Mexico won independence from Spain in 1821, other nations did not want to recognize its autonomy.
• After a civil war in the late 1850s, Benito Juárez became Mexico's first indigenous president in 1861.
• Juárez canceled repayments on foreign loans to protect Mexico's st...

Napoleon Hill starts the Automobile College of Washington as president in 1909. He promised 6 weeks of training to be sufficient to become an expert in assembling cars.

Hill’s college was actually a way to get free labor for building cars.