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Hace 5 días · It was first celebrated and observed as 'Negro History Week' in 1926 under the leadership of Carter G. Woodson, a Harvard-trained historian, and the organization which we he co-founded, the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH).
Hace 4 días · In 1915, Carter G. Woodson co-founded an organization committed to researching and promoting Black American achievement. In 1926, Woodson declared the second week of February "Negro History Week ...
Hace 3 días · Carter G. Woodson was a distinguished African American historian and educator who wrote books for adults and young people. Dr. Woodson received his Ph.D. in history from Harvard University, and wrote many black history books as well as the seminal volume on education, Miseducation of the Negro.
Hace 5 días · Read this article. Through an “inter (con)textual reading” (Maraj), this essay explores the resonances and generative incongruences between two prominent metaphors that reflect the thought/feeling/praxis of two of the modern era’s most significant revolutions – “the common wind” from the Haitian revolution and the “wind ...
Hace 2 días · In 1853, a newly elected, twenty-six year old State representative stood to defend his "Negro Exclusion" bill against bitter attacks by anti-slavery legislators in his State.
Hace 4 días · More than a decade ago, Principal Joseph Mattina noticed students at P.S. 23 Carter G. Woodson were consistently arriving at the Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, elementary school without their uniforms. Initially, Mattina grew frustrated with the students, asking why they couldn’t wear the clothes that had been supplied by the school.
Hace 4 días · Carter G. Woodson was the first descendant of slave parents to receive a Ph.D. in History from Harvard. During Dr. Woodson’s meticulous research, he discovered a disturbing trend in the segregated institutions designated to provide education for Negroes {African Americans}.
