Our columnist talks with one of Black History Month’s modern-day keepers about the work it takes to remember the past – and ...
The historian promoted Negro History Week as part of efforts to embed Black studies into the American education system.
Historian and author Carter G. Woodson is remembered as the “Father of Black History.” Read about his education, books, idea ...
We all have identities. Some can easily be seen while others can’t. Being both Black and Jewish is how I identify, and ...
The man behind Black History Month was a Harvard scholar who felt “all Americans should understand the largely overlooked ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
It all started with a scholar named Carter G. Woodson, who founded the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) in 1915 to research, preserve, and disseminate ...