History should be taught chronologically from facts of significant events and significant people. Not to scrounge up data on anything you possibly can about a certain race thereby disrupting chronology.
George Washington Carver did something worthwhile by his scientific work elevating the peanut to something that practically everyone eats and that has a multitude of uses. Many owe their livelihood to growing them. Just ask Jimmy Carter.
All that Black History accomplishes is to relegate real history to the paper basket while students bask in the glow of Quanzaa, a holiday created as a joke by a negro prison inmate.
Further, Black History has become, in many institutions, a major for negroes to hide in. The problem is that the only jobs requiring 'Black' Studies is teaching others about Black Studies.
And still does not put him in the same league with a Thomas Edison or Ben Franklin.
It's also racist, because it's the shortest month of the year.