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 the ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — As Black History Month concludes, first-phase renovations are wrapping up at the home and office of Carter G. Woodson, the man who is considered “The father of African American history.” ...

GLEN JEAN, WV (WVNS) – Did you know the man that is responsible for the creation of Black History Month once worked and lived near the New River Gorge? Carter G. Woodson was born in 1875 in Virginia ...

Black history doesn’t have nearly the amount of documentation and sources as many other areas of American history. That has long proved a challenge to historians of the Black experience. Carter G.

Thanks to noted African-American scholar Carter G. Woodson, the nation celebrates Black History Month in February as a tribute to the birthdays this month of President Abraham Lincoln and Fredrick ...

Who Was Carter G. Woodson? Known as the “Father of Black History,” Carter G. Woodson dedicated his career to the field of African American history and lobbied extensively to establish Black History ...