Our columnist talks with one of Black History Month’s modern-day keepers about the work it takes to remember the past – and ...
Carter G. Woodson, who started the precursor to Black History Month, wrote of Cincinnati’s Black history before the Civil War ...
Historian and author Carter G. Woodson is remembered as the “Father of Black History.” Read about his education, books, idea ...
In the early 20th century, historian Carter G. Woodson chafed at the world’s silence on Black achievement. In a racist society that mischaracterized Black people and overlooked their ...
Wabash Ave., Chicago. Carter G. Woodson, a University of Chicago alum, was staying in a room at the Colored YMCA, as it was designated, while manning a booth at the Exposition of Fifty Years of ...