Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Carter G. Woodson Jr. High School (renamed McKinley Jr. High School after integration in 1954) in St. Albans, built in 1932. Carter G. Woodson Avenue (also known as 9th Avenue) in Huntington, West Virginia. Notably, Woodson's alma mater, Douglass High School is located between Carter G. Woodson Avenue and 10th Avenue in the 1500 block.
The property served as Dr. Woodson's home from 1922 until his death in 1950. From this three-story Victorian rowhouse, Woodson managed the operations of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, published the Negro History Bulletin and the Journal of Negro History, operated Associated Publishers, and pursued his own research and writing about African-American history.
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 in an effort to teach people about African-American history and the contributions of Black people.
Many praised Woodson and his work as a glimpse into the problems that plague African Americans' social advancement. Ron Daniels, with the Michigan City said, "Carter G. Woodson, one of our most distinguished historians, and the founder of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, was convinced that the dilemma of racial consciousness and iden
Black History Month celebrates the achievements of Black Americans and the contributions they have made to American society. Created by Carter G. Woodson, the month originally began as Black ...
The Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) is a learned society dedicated to the study and appreciation of African-American History.The association was founded in Chicago on September 9, 1915, [1] during the National Half Century Exposition and Lincoln Jubilee, as the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASNLH) by Carter G. Woodson, William B ...
According to Parry, "Negro History Week" began through the Association for the Study of African American History and Life, founded by scholar, teacher, and activist Carter G. Woodson in 1915.
Strickland wrote an introduction to the book that contains biographies of Woodson and Greene. [6] Claudine Ferrell of Mary Washington College wrote that Strickland's introduction, along with this editing and the introductory comments from Greene himself, "are invaluable in setting the stage for a work that helps fill, to a small degree, the huge gap in the information on Woodson's tireless and ...