Black History Month: Turning Points
The first Negro History Week, the predecessor of Black History Month, took place 100 years ago this month, in February 1926. Its creator, Carter G. Woodson, is considered the Father of Black History.
March 19 will mark 60 years since Texas Western College (now the University of Texas at El Paso) pulled off a landmark victory over basketball powerhouse Kentucky in the NCAA national title game. The Miners were the first championship team to start five Black players.
The first African American to serve in the U.S. Marine Corps is considered to be Texan Alfred Masters of Palestine, who was sworn in June 1, 1942—after President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s executive order to desegregate the armed forces. But in 1776, John “Keto” Martin, an enslaved man in Delaware, was recruited into the Continental Marines to fight the British.
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$3.2 Million
Total value of scholarships awarded to more than 1,400 students by Texas’ electric cooperatives for the 2025–26 school year. That funding is mostly made possible by legislation allowing co-ops to use unclaimed capital credits for this purpose.
