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 miner ...

Host Lisa Simeone talks with Jacqueline Goggin about her biography Carter G. Woodson: A Life in Black History. Known as the father of African-American history, Woodson devoted his life to the study of ...

In 1895, a young man from West Virginia, Carter G. Woodson, who worked as a coal miner while attending high school, enrolled at Berea College. Woodson is considered the father of Black History Week ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Black History Month has its origins right in Chicago at the Wabash YMCA in the city's Bronzeville neighborhood. University of Chicago alum Dr. Carter G. Woodson played a key role in ...

anac copy 3908020679023 purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. Contents Introduction: "Willing to Sacrifice" -- Carter G. Woodson, 1875-1950 : Black History Institution Builder -- ...

The following is a lightly edited transcript of remarks made by Keith Wyche during a Newsweek podcast debate on Black History Month. You can listen to the podcast here: I still believe, as did Carter ...