He bought a postage stamp with Carter G. Woodson's face on it. Puzzled by the fact that he shared a last name with this Black historical figure, he dug into his family's real history, and he was ...

Carter G. Woodson "There is no better family than the Woodson family to tell the story of what has happened in this country," says Barbara Dunn, the vice president of membership for ASALH ...

Woodson’s parents had been enslaved ... In 2003, Congress made it a national historic site. “Carter G. Woodson represents for us living history and the importance of knowing whose shoulders ...

Carter Woodson’s last name indicates a forebear ... From hearing his grandparents’ and parents’ stories, he knew that the idea of Black people not having a history was pure bunk.

Being the only Black family in the synagogue’s history ... are descendants of the man who founded this great holiday: Carter ...

But without historian Carter G. Woodson ... most days and still barely produced enough food to feed the entire family. Woodson took on the jobs that were available to him, including garbage ...

In the U.S., what does it mean when a white family and a Black family share a last name — and one of their ancestors is a pioneer of Black history? How Black and white Woodsons became one family.

Carter G. Woodson In 1984 a postage stamp issued to commemorate the life of Woodson changed a white family's story Growing up in the '40s and '50s in segregated Kentucky, it was part of Craig ...

How a family heals "Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history." — Carter G. Woodson There are ...