Maryland Student Minimum Wage - $7.86 - Full-time high school or college students who work part-time may be paid 85% of the Maryland minimum wage (as little as $7.86 per hour) for up to 20 hours of work per week at certain employers (such as work-study programs at universities).
1 Black History Month began as âNegro History Week,â which was created in 1926 by Carter G. Woodson, a noted African American historian, scholar, educator, and publisher. 2  It became a month-long celebration in 1976. 3  The month of February was chosen to coincide with the birthdays of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln.
ADVERTISEMENT. That we even have a Black History Month is something of a feat, given the long and complicated path of racial justice in America. The idea was first proposed as Negro History Week by historian Carter G. Woodson in 1926 to celebrate the February births of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. But it would take 50 years for the Federal government to recognize it -- and then expand it to the entire month. Such is the slow wheel of history.