Over the past 25 years the Carter G. Woodson Memorial Foundation has been working to restore the home and turn it into a ...

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

The Review | Essay By Scott Spillman March 4, 2025 What does it mean to study slavery? To study something means to make arguments based on evidence.

Dr. Carter Woodson had no time to lose. Amnesia was setting in and every second counted. The amnesia was cultural. The Black race was systematically being deprived of its memory—its history excluded ...

Woodson died of a heart attack at the age of 74 in 1950. Two schools in Florida are named for him: Carter G. Woodson Elementary School in Jacksonville and Dr. Carter G. Woodson PK-8 in Tampa.

Carter G. Woodson, who started the precursor to Black History Month, wrote of Cincinnati’s Black history before the Civil War for a scholarly journal.

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 ...

Explore Read all 10 years of the AJC's Black History Month Series A country that still had former slaves as a living reminder of an institution that was banned just 60 year prior. In February 1926 ...

Celebrate Dr. Carter G. Woodson's 149th birthday with a special event at Dunbar High School in Washington, D.C. Learn about his life and legacy.

The Chicago Defender Spread The Word In 1932, Woodson published an editorial entitled “History Week and What it Means,” in The Chicago Defender, one of the most widely read Black-owned newspapers.

Carter G. Woodson, known to many as the “Father of Black History” came up with the concept of “Negro History Week” in 1926, intended to “both create and popularize the knowledge about ...

Carter G. Woodson wasn't able to go to school until the age of 20. Born in 1875, his parents were former slaves and he spent the early years of life helping out on his family's farm to make ends meet.