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 ...

Despite its official government recognition in 1975, scholars say Black History Month started decades earlier with the work ...

Carter G. Woodson library in Chicago (Photo credit: Eddy "Precise" Lamarre) In 2025, the Carter G. Woodson Regional Library marks a significant milestone: its 50th anniversary. Situated at 9525 S.

In the fall of 1870, a handful of students made their way through the northwest quadrant of the nation’s capital and through the doors of D.C.’s Preparatory High School for Colored Youth, the ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (WFLA) – The Dr. Carter G. Woodson Museum has launched a new series where natives 85 and older are sharing their stories, which will be recorded and preserved in a new exhibit.

When you ask the students at Leo Catholic High School in Chicago’s Auburn Gresham neighborhood what they like most about Black History Month, they’re eager to answer. “Every year during Black History ...

WASHINGTON — As Black History Month concludes, first-phase renovations are wrapping up at the home and office of Carter G. Woodson, the man who is considered “The father of African American history.” ...

HUNTINGTON — Brent Leggs presented the Dr. Carter G. Woodson Lecture Monday in the Memorial Student Center at Marshall University. Leggs is dubbed an outstanding figure in Black historic preservation.

HUNTINGTON — Negro History Week was born out of the education of Black History, something that wasn’t commonly taught in the 1920s. Now, almost 100 years later, the legacy and teachings of Dr. Carter ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (BLOOM) — A proposed design for the future home of the Dr. Carter G. Woodson African American Museum has earned top honors on the global stage. The rendering, created by architect ...