From a second-floor “home office” at 1538 Ninth St. NW, Carter G. Woodson led and orchestrated a movement to document Black history, dictating dozens of books, letters, speeches, articles and ...

In 2025, the Carter G. Woodson Regional Library marks a significant milestone: its 50th anniversary. The library has been a ...

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.

Black History Month is universally recognized throughout the land nowadays thanks to the great Carter G. Woodson. Who was this man and how in the world did he make history so popular?

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 ...

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 ...

Carter G. Woodson was born in 1875 in Virginia to parents who were slaves. As he grew up, they moved to Huntington to pursue new lives. To earn a living, he worked in the New River Gorge ...

Nekesha Cozart will be the next principal of Carter G. Woodson Academy in Lexington, Fayette County Public Schools announced Thursday evening. Cozart has been the acting principal this academic year.

There’s a little more than a week left in Black History Month 2025. Where did the time go? It doesn’t help that the U.S. observation is in a month with only 28 days. Why is Black History ...

BEREA, Ky. (LEX 18) — The man known as the "Father of Black History", Dr. Carter G. Woodson, got his start as a student at Berea College in the 1800s. Jessica Klanderud, the director of the ...