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 ...

Who Was Carter G. Woodson? 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 ...

But without historian Carter G. Woodson, who devoted much of his life to shining a light on Black history, the celebration might not exist. A century ago, the idea of highlighting Black ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Here in Black History Month, the meaning of my identity resonates even more deeply after my mother told me we are descendants of the man who founded this great holiday: Carter G. Woodson.