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.
Definition: African American reformer who believed that African Americans should protest unjust treatment and demand equal rights. Significance: He is important because he was one of the main African American leaders in the Jim Crow Era that had a strong opinion. Booker T. Washington.