Dr. Carter G. Woodson is known as the father of Black History Month. Here at the museum of his namesake, visitors can learn the history of African Americans in St. Petersburg and beyond.

Thanks to Carter G. Woodson’s life’s work, we have learned not to believe what is negatively said about us. In fact, in the same month that Valentine’s Day is celebrated, many of us have ...

But without historian Carter G. Woodson, ... Woodson took a big step toward what would become his life’s work by co-founding ...

Dr. Woodson’s house, the birthplace of the annual month, was a hub of scholarship, bringing together generations of intellectuals, writers and activists. In 1922, Carter G. Woodson, known as ...

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.

Carter G. Woodson, known as the father of black history, was born to former slaves in Virginia’s geographic center of Buckingham County in 1875, during the difficult Reconstruction era.

Carter G. Woodson, who started the precursor to Black History Month, wrote of Cincinnati’s Black history before the Civil War for a scholarly journal.

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

The seeds of Black History Month were sown more than 100 years ago in the South Side YMCA at 3763 S. Wabash Ave., Chicago. Carter G. Woodson, a University of Chicago alum, was staying in a room at ...

Carter G. Woodson wasn't able to go to school until the age of 20. Born in 1875, his parents were former slaves and he spent the early years of life helping out on his family's farm to make ends meet.