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 ...

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 ...

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 ...