Dr. Carter G. Woodson is known as the father of Black History Month. Here at the museum of his namesake, visitors can learn the history of African Americans in St. Petersburg and beyond.

Carter G. Woodson worked to change that. ... Woodson was a pivotal figure in the New Negro Movement, an emergence of Black culture, art, writing, music, history and politics in the 1920s. ...

Carter G. Woodson, an educator and the author of “The Mis-Education of the Negro,” was named “Father of Black History” after founding the Association for the Study of Negro Life and ...

1875–1950 Who Was Carter G. Woodson? K nown as the “Father of Black History,” Carter G. Woodson dedicated his career to the field of African American history and lobbied extensively to ...

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 ...

During his era, Carter G. Woodson used his genius as a leading cultural icon, historian, opinion journalist, newsmaker, and CEO/publicist to preserve and popularize a subject clouded by ...

Black History Month started as Negro History Week in 1926 by Carter G. Woodson. Today, his great great grand nephew, Brett, is a college student at UC Santa Cruz, and he's learning what it means ...

Carter G. Woodson’s classic “The Mis-Education of the Negro” still resonates in today’s charged political debates over how Black history is taught in schools.

Carter G. Woodson, known as the father of black history, was born to former slaves in Virginia’s geographic center of Buckingham County in 1875, during the difficult Reconstruction era.

W.T. Woodson High School in Fairfax City, VA, voted on Nov. 9 to rename its school after Carter G. Woodson, the pioneer of Black History Month. The school was initially named for W.T. Woodson, a ...

The seeds of Black History Month were sown more than 100 years ago in the South Side YMCA at 3763 S. Wabash Ave., Chicago. Carter G. Woodson, a University of Chicago alum, was staying in a room at ...