Our columnist talks with one of Black History Month’s modern-day keepers about the work it takes to remember the past – and ...

1875–1950 Known as the “Father of Black History,” Carter G. Woodson dedicated his career to the field of African American history and lobbied extensively to establish Black History Month as a ...

That has long proved a challenge to historians of the Black experience. Carter G. Woodson worked to change that. Best known as the Father of Black History Month for having created the predecessor ...

In the early 20th century, historian Carter G. Woodson chafed at the world’s silence on Black achievement. In a racist society that mischaracterized Black people and overlooked their ...

Wabash Ave., Chicago. Carter G. Woodson, a University of Chicago alum, was staying in a room at the Colored YMCA, as it was designated, while manning a booth at the Exposition of Fifty Years of ...

Often called the "Father of Black History," Virginia native and scholar Carter G. Woodson started Negro History Week in ...

As a child, Carter G. Woodson, the son of formerly enslaved and illiterate parents, endured the backbreaking labor of a ...

Black History Month wasn't always a monthlong celebration. In February 1926, historian and author Carter G. Woodson created Negro History Week. It was a weeklong celebration that was an effort to ...

This undated photo provided by the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) shows historian and author Carter G. Woodson. (ASALH via AP)Association for the Study of ...

Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of ...