The historian promoted Negro History Week as part of efforts to embed Black studies into the American education system.

Did you know the man that is responsible for the creation of Black History Month once worked and lived near the New River ...

Historian and author Carter G. Woodson is remembered as the “Father of Black History.” Read about his education, books, idea ...

Black history doesn’t have nearly the amount of documentation and sources as many other areas ... to historians of the Black experience. Carter G. Woodson worked to change that.

As a child, Carter G. Woodson, the son of formerly enslaved and illiterate parents, endured the backbreaking labor of a ...

Black History Month wasn't always a monthlong celebration. In February 1926, historian and author Carter G. Woodson created Negro History Week. It was a weeklong celebration that was an effort to ...

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 ...

Schools, museums and communities across the nation are marking Black History Month — a celebration of Black history, culture and education. The history of the month dates back almost a century ...