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Carter G. Woodson is widely credited with the activism that, in 1926, established a week, and later a month, to focus on the history and contributions of black Americans.
In his message on the observance of Black History Month 50 years later, President Gerald R. Ford connected Black History Month to “the realization of the ideals envisioned by our Founding Fathers,” such as “[f]reedom and the recognition of individual rights.”
For more than four decades—even before he joined the Supreme Court in 1991—Justice Clarence Thomas has profoundly contributed to making those ideals both real and lasting by doggedly defending true equality before the law.
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