Carter Godwin Woodson was born on December 19, 1875, in New Canton, Virginia, to Anna Eliza Riddle Woodson and James Woodson. The fourth of seven children, Carter worked as a sharecropper and a miner ...

In 1895, a young man from West Virginia, Carter G. Woodson, who worked as a coal miner while attending high school, enrolled at Berea College. Woodson is considered the father of Black History Week ...

Host Lisa Simeone talks with Jacqueline Goggin about her biography Carter G. Woodson: A Life in Black History. Known as the father of African-American history, Woodson devoted his life to the study of ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Black History Month has its origins right in Chicago at the Wabash YMCA in the city's Bronzeville neighborhood. University of Chicago alum Dr. Carter G. Woodson played a key role in ...

anac copy 3908020679023 purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. Contents Introduction: "Willing to Sacrifice" -- Carter G. Woodson, 1875-1950 : Black History Institution Builder -- ...

The following is a lightly edited transcript of remarks made by Keith Wyche during a Newsweek podcast debate on Black History Month. You can listen to the podcast here: I still believe, as did Carter ...

Target swiftly yanked a children’s book from its Black History Month display after a customer noticed that it mislabeled Black icons like Booker T. Washington, Carter Woodson and W.E.B. Du Bois.