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So this coming month, February is Black History Month in the United States and Canada. Black History Month in the United States and Canada.

Black History Month is a time for us to remember important people and events in the history of people

of African descent around the world and in our countries.

Black History Month can be traced back to 1926

when Carter G. Woodson founded Negro History Week

to recognize the achievements made by African Americans.

Carter Woodson was a Harvard University graduate, and he chose February as the month to celebrate Black History because the birthdays of Frederick

Douglas and Abraham Lincoln were both in February.

Both of these men had worked hard in their lifetime to end slavery in America.

We thought that for this month's first episode of bedtime history, we would focus on one of the

great black rights activists and civil rights leaders of American history, Martin Luther King Jr.

Civil rights are the rights of citizens to political and social freedom and equality.

While it may seem obvious to most of us these days that all humans should be treated equally,

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