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Robert Leon Woodson Sr. [1] (born April 8, 1937) is an American civil rights activist, community development leader, author, and founder and president of the Woodson Center, a non-profit research and demonstration organization that supports neighborhood-based initiatives to revitalize low-income communities. [2]
Largely excluded from the uniformly-white academic history profession, Woodson realized the need to make the structures which support scholarship in black history, and black historians. He taught at historically black colleges , Howard University and West Virginia State University , but spent most of his career in Washington, D.C., managing the ...
At college campus protests during the 1960s, a "Flag of the Races" was in use, with five stripes comprising red, black, brown, yellow, and white tones. [38] [unreliable source?] In the 2000 United States Census, two of the five self-designated races are labeled by a color. [21]
Lexington’s Carter G. Woodson Preparatory Academy on Monday was renamed the George Washington Carver STEM Academy for Boys by the Fayette County Public Schools board.. Soraya Matthews, chief of ...
Chapter 4—"Education Under Outside Control": Woodson speaks on how African Americans are given educationally less valuable opportunities despite whether the institution is historically black or predominately white. Woodson believes that equal education opportunities have an effect on individuals and the life that they create for themselves.
The Woodson family is a black American family. Its history and efficacy has been under attack for over 30 years (2024 now). [5] The Jefferson-Hemings controversy Wikipedia page and the Sally Hemings Wikipedia page are dominated, not as a matter of design or intent, on the part of the Wikipedia organization, but as a matter of practice and reality, by individuals who have the same mindset as ...
Sarah Jane Woodson Early, born Sarah Jane Woodson (November 15, 1825 – August 1907), was an American educator, black nationalist, temperance activist and author. A graduate of Oberlin College, where she majored in classics, she was hired at Wilberforce University in 1858 as the first black woman college instructor, and also the first black American to teach at a historically black college or ...
Roderick Kevin Woodson (born March 10, 1965) is an American former professional football player for 17 seasons in the National Football League (NFL). Widely considered one of the greatest cornerbacks of all time, Woodson holds the NFL record for fumble recoveries (32) by a defensive player, and interceptions returned for a touchdown (12).