On the 100th anniversary of Black History Month, learn more about Woodson and his legacy—as well as the events at UChicago, ...
Carter G. Woodson founded Negro History Week in 1926 to promote the study of Black life and history, which has since grown into Black History Month, but legislative efforts are now being made to ...
How Negro History Week, founded by Carter G. Woodson in 1926, evolved into today’s nationally recognized Black History Month.
Celebrate 100 years of Black History Month and the ongoing fight for African American history. Learn about the legacy of ...
By promoting the teaching of Black history, the scholar Carter G. Woodson sought to counter prevailing educational narratives that ignored the role of racism and wove a tapestry of whiteness.
Despite proclaiming last February as National Black History Month, President Donald Trump's second term has been marked by ...
Black History Month celebrates 100 years of honoring Black culture, but legislative efforts seek to restrict the teaching of Black history, highlighting the importance of Black social justice ...
Carter Godwin Woodson was born on December 19, 1875, in New Canton, Virginia, to Anna Eliza Riddle Woodson and James Woodson. The fourth of seven children, Carter worked as a sharecropper and a miner ...
Dr. Woodson’s house, the birthplace of the annual month, was a hub of scholarship, bringing together generations of intellectuals, writers and activists. In 1922, Carter G. Woodson, known as “the ...
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