From a second-floor “home office” at 1538 Ninth St. NW, Carter G. Woodson led and orchestrated a movement to document Black history, dictating dozens of books, letters, speeches, articles and ...

Carter G. Woodson’s Vision: Preserving African-American History For Future Generations. ... “In the homes of Negroes…are valuable manuscripts like letters, diaries, wills, deeds, ...

Carter G. Woodson, an educator and the author of “The Mis-Education of the Negro,” was named “Father of Black History” after founding the Association for the Study of Negro Life and ...

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.

A name under consideration is Dr. Carter G. Woodson -- same last name but no relation. Woodson was a Virginia author and journalist who founded The Journal of Negro History in 1916.

In 1922, Carter G. Woodson, known as “the father of Black history,” bought the home at 1538 Ninth Street NW for $8,000. Credit... Scurlock Studio Records, Archives Center, National Museum of ...

It all started with a scholar named Carter G. Woodson, who founded the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) in 1915 to research, preserve, and disseminate ...

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 ...