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 ...

Dr. Carter Godwin Woodson, a sharecropper and the son of formerly enslaved and illiterate Virginia parents, was a self-made man.He taught himself enough to start high school at the age of 20 and ...

It became known as Dr. Woodson’s “office home,” as Willie Leanna Miles, who was a managing director of the Associated Publishers, put it in her 1991 article “Dr. Carter Godwin Woodson as I ...

Starting in the school year 2024–25, W. T. Woodson High School will be officially known as the Carter G. Woodson High School, named in honor of the distinguished Black author, educator and ...

A statue of Carter Godwin Woodson at the Carter Godwin Woodson Memorial Park in the Shaw neighborhood of Washington, D.C., sculpted by Ray Kaskey. Credit: Wikimedia Commons A remark by Ogidi-born ...

Colorized portrait depicts American historian, author, and journalist Carter Godwin Woodson (1875 - 1950), 1895. It was Woodson’s work as an African American scholar that led to the celebration ...

The eldest child of nine, born to former slave parents, self-taught and schooled amid coalmines rather than books. Under these conditions the Father of Black History, Carter Godwin Woodson arose, ...

Carter G. Woodson: A historian, educator and author, Carter Godwin Woodson helped establish in 1926 what would become Black History Month. (Archives Center, National Museum of American History) ...

Beginning as “Negro History Week” in 1926, Black History Month was created by Carter Godwin Woodson, the first African American to receive a Ph.D. in history from Harvard University, in part ...

Carter G. Woodson’s classic “The Mis-Education of the Negro” still resonates in today’s charged political debates over how Black history is taught in schools.