Hot black oxide can be done from generic mixtures of caustic soda, sodium nitrite / nitrate, wetting agents and stabilizers or from proprietary mixes. The result of the process is an attractive but very thin and marginally corrosion-resistant, dark black iron oxide finish.
Negro History Week (1926). The precursor to Black History Month was created in 1926 in the United States, when historian Carter G. Woodson and the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History announced the second week of February to be Negro History Week..
White Male History Month. By Newman and The Regulator As you may or may not know, March is women's history month. Like most other Americans, I celebrated this month by not caring. I celebrated much the same way in February for black history month. Now I have nothing against African-Americans or females, or even African-American females, I just couldn't give a rat's hind-end about their semi-existent histories which can be summed up in numerous accounts of attempts to pry themselves out from under the white man's thumb.