Do you know how it originated?
At first it was thought that the beginning of this day was around the 1950s, it was compulsive shopping after Thanksgiving Day celebrated after the fourth Thursday of November.
This event arose in the U.S. on a Friday in September 1869 when some agents of the Wall Street stock exchange wanted to cover the entire gold market along with a politician of great importance in New York, Boss Tweed, bribing different characters of great relevance, but the plan failed after the price of gold collapsed in minutes, leaving a large part of investors in ruin, and therefore it would be called "Black Friday".
But it was not until around the 1950s that the expression "Black Friday" began to be used to refer to the multitude of people who made compulsive purchases on this eve after Thanksgiving Day, celebrated after the fourth Thursday of November.
In the mid-1950s, following the Thanksgiving holiday, an Army-Navy soccer game was held in Philadelphia on Saturday. And on the eve of the game, Friday, the city collapsed after the arrival of crowds of people who took advantage of the occasion to do their Christmas shopping and attend the next day's game.
Because of this avalanche, no police officer in the city could rest that day, in addition to having to work long working days of 12 hours to control all the chaos that filled the city, christening this day as "Black Friday".
The success was such that from then on all the stores in Philadelphia adopted this expression to refer to this avalanche of people who came to the city's stores after Thanksgiving Day to buy their Christmas shopping.
Even so, it was not until years later where after appearing in different headlines, on November 19, 1975, The New York Times, using this expression to refer to the traffic problem caused by the waves of people who came to benefit from the discounts established after Thanksgiving eve, bringing back to the present day the famous expression "BLACK FRIDAY".