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

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 ...

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.

For the past 50 years, every February has been honored as Black History Month, an annual observance that recognizes the achievements and contributions of Black Americans. But without historian Carter ...

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.” ...

Black history doesn’t have nearly the amount of documentation and sources as many other areas of American history. That has long proved a challenge to historians of the Black experience. Carter G.

Black Americans. What began in 1926 has grown into an overall cultural observance of Black History in February ...

OXFORD — Aidan Huffer of Hobson City has been awarded the Carter G. Woodson Scholar Award at Berea College, securing a full tuition scholarship valued at more than $190,000. The award recognizes ...

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 ...

ST. ALBANS, W.Va. (WSAZ) - Six West Virginia sites have been added to the National Register of Historic Places. They’re scattered throughout the Mountain State. One of the six is the Carter G. Woodson ...