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	Carter G. Woodson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Woodson was one of a large poor family could not attend regularly such schools as were provided, but he was able, largely by self-instruction, to master the fundamentals of common school subjects by the time he was seventeen.
		The following year, in January 1916, Woodson began the publication of the scholarly Journal of Negro History, which, despite depressions, the loss of support from Foundations and two World Wars, has never missed an issue.
		Woodson also influenced the direction and subsidizing of research in African-American History by the Association, and wrote numerous articles, monographs and books on blacks.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Carter_G._Woodson (1391 words)

	Woodson Institute
		Carter Godwin Woodson was born in Buckingham County, Virginia in 1875.
		Carter G. Woodson is generally recognized as "The Father of Negro History." Yet despite these lofty achievements, there is at present no suitable memorial to his life-long struggle to institutionalize the study of Afro-American and African societies and cultures.
		Woodson did not rest upon these already impressive laurels, for he believed that the best antidote to the racial chauvinism of his day lay in bringing the results of scholarly research and writing to the attention of the literate public.
	www.virginia.edu /~woodson/welcome/name.html (1073 words)

	Carter G. Woodson
		Carter G. Woodson (1875-1950), the son of former slaves James and Eliza (Riddle) Woodson, was born on a small farm in New Canton, Virginia.
		Carter Godwin Woodson was the founder of Associated publishers, founder and editor of the Negro History Bulletin, and the author of more than thirty books.
		Carter Godwin Woodson has been called the father of Black History Month.
	aalbc.com /authors/carterg.htm (651 words)

	AFRO-AMERICAN ALMANAC - African-American History Resource
		CARTER G. Carter G. Woodson was born, the oldest of nine children, in New Canton, Virginia, December 19, 1875, to newly freed slaves, James and Anne Woodson.
		From 1919 to 1920, Dr. Woodson served as dean of the School of Liberal Arts and head of the graduate faculty at Howard University.
		As a result of his years of study and research, Dr. Woodson came to realize that the Black man’s past contributions had to be documented and taught.
	www.toptags.com /aama/bio/men/cwoodson.htm (552 words)

	Carter Godwin Woodson
		Carter G. Woodson was one of the country's prominent historians and a prolific writer.
		Carter Woodson was born in New Canton, Virginia, in 1875--ten years after the 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery, was written into law.
		Called the "Father of Negro History," Carter Godwin Woodson (1875-1950) was instrumental in the founding of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History in 1915.
	www.africawithin.com /bios/carter_woodson.htm (896 words)

	Carter G. Woodson
		Carter G. Woodson was born in New Canton, Buckingham County, Virginia, to former slaves Anne Eliza (Riddle) and James Henry Woodson.
		As one of a large and poor family, young Carter G. Woodson was brought up without the "ordinary comforts of life." He was not able to attend school during much of its five-month term because helping on the farm took priority over a formal education.
		Determined not to be defeated by this setback, Carter was able "largely by self-instruction to master the fundamentals of common school subjects by the time he was seventeen." Ambitious for more education, Carter and his brother Robert Henry moved to Huntington, West Virginia, where they hoped to attend the Douglass High School.
	www.donsmcclureconsultants.com /concept_149.htm (736 words)

	Carter G. Woodson, Father of Black History
		Woodson turned the invitation down, saying with characteristic bluntness that he was not a folklorist and that he didn't think the conference would accomplish anything.
		The Woodson family was impoverished and oppressed, and the future scholar's childhood was bleak and unpromising.
		Although Woodson alienated some friends and supporters, he succeeded by the power of example and the sheer force of his personality in creating a structure which published books, funded researchers and shaped the thinking of large masses of people.
	usinfo.state.gov /usa/blackhis/woodson.htm (1864 words)

	Carter G. Godwin) Woodson
		Of the black association he founded in 1915, one ex-employee has said, "Carter Woodson didn't just found it; he was the association." He could have been found scrubbing office floors or running books to the library for other historians.
		Born in 1875 to parents who were ex-slaves, Woodson overcame the black economic and social barriers of his time to become the leading figure in the study, writing and teaching of black history.
		Discontent with the half-truths and nontruths of the meager records that existed for blacks, Woodson based his accounts on painstaking research.
	members.aol.com /efirpo/woodson.html (362 words)

	Woodson Institute
		Carter Godwin Woodson was born in Buckingham County, Virginia in 1875.
		Carter G. Woodson is generally recognized as "The Father of Negro History." Yet despite these lofty achievements, there is at present no suitable memorial to his life-long struggle to institutionalize the study of Afro-American and African societies and cultures.
		Woodson did not rest upon these already impressive laurels, for he believed that the best antidote to the racial chauvinism of his day lay in bringing the results of scholarly research and writing to the attention of the literate public.
	www.virginia.edu /~woodson/welcome/name.html (1073 words)

	CNN Interactive - Indepth Reports
		Woodson graduated in two years and spent several semesters at Berea College in Kentucky, a school open to blacks and whites that was founded before the Civil War by people opposed to slavery.
		Woodson believed that historians had, as Halford H. Fairchild of Pitzer College in California puts it, "whitewashed the contributions blacks have made to the world.
		Woodson moved on to Washington to continue his study of black history, ignoring those who laughed at his bad haircut and "hayseed" clothes.
	www.cnn.com /SPECIALS/1999/blackhistory/overview (1831 words)

	Carter G. Woodson
		Woodson, Carter G. "The Negroes of Cincinnati Prior to the Civil War", The Journal of Negro History, Vol 1:1, January 1916.
		The Journal of Negro History was founded by Carter G. Woodson under the auspices of The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History.
		Carter G. Woodson: The Father of Black History (Enslow Publishers, 1991).
	www.wvculture.org /history/notewv/woodson.html (551 words)

	Carter G. Woodson
		Carter G. Woodson was best known for his work as a historian and was particularly active in the field of education.
		In 1915, Woodson founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History to which we owe the publication, in 1916, of the Journal of Negro History.
		The goal was to "popularize the truth...[we] are not interested so much in Negro History as in history influenced by the Negro." Dr. Woodson, considered by many to be the "Father of Black History," chose the second week in February because of the birthdays of Frederick Douglass, and Abraham Lincoln.
	www.swagga.com /woodson.htm (511 words)

	Governor's Office - Black History Month - Carter G. Woodson
		Carter G. Woodson's story is that of a poor child rising above his circumstances to achieve heights to which few persons aspire.
		First he educated himself, and then Carter G. Woodson educated America by employing sound scholarship to refute myths and racist views about the value and contributions of African Americans.
		Woodson served as director of the Association for the Study of Negro Life until 1950 when he died at the age of 75.
	www.myflorida.com /myflorida/governorsoffice/black_history/founder.html (479 words)

	Dr. Carter Woodson, Founder of Black History Month -- Courtesy of The Freeman Institute
		Perhaps more importantly, Woodson knew that in a society where black intelligence and moral worth is incessantly demeaned and devalued, studying black history would serve as a psychological defense shield for black students against the assaults of white supremacy.
		Woodson received his high school diploma at the age of 22 and went on to get a master's degree in history from the University of Chicago.
		Woodson believed the study of black history, using the tools of scholarly research and writing, could serve a dual purpose.
	www.freemaninstitute.com /woodson.htm (1182 words)

	Carter G. Woodson: Profiles in Black History
		Woodson was born in New Canton, Virginia in December of 1875.
		Woodson recognised that black accomplishments were ignored in standard history textbooks, and sought to bolster a wider knowledge of black achievement.
		The truth is, Woodson began the yearly observance as 'Negro History Week' in 1926, and specifically picked the week inclusive of February 14th, the birthdate of Fredrick Douglass.
	www.phillyburbs.com /bhm/woodson.shtml (583 words)

	America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places 2001 - Carter G. Woodson Home
		Eighty-five years after Carter G. Woodson created the black history movement, the Washington home where he lived and worked sits abandoned and forgotten, an ironic legacy of the man who spent his life preserving African-American history and culture.
		The Woodson home is the crown jewel of Shaw - a neighborhood that has been called the heart of black Washington because as many as 70 sites have been singled out for their significance in the city's African-American heritage.
		From his home in Shaw, Woodson was the first to call for a national week recognizing black achievement and was a lifelong advocate of education and preservation of African-American history.
	www.nthp.org /11Most/2001/carterg.htm (411 words)

	cartergwoodson.org - Dr. Carter G. Woodson
		Carter Woodson is recognized nationally as the "Father of Black History," but few West Virginians know that Huntington was his adopted hometown.
		Woodson was born in Buckingham County, Virginia, in 1875.
		Woodson and an assistant spent part of each year selling Association publications out of the trunk of a car and speaking wherever they found an audience.
	www.cartergwoodson.org /index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=16&I... (524 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search View - Carter G. Woodson
		Woodson, Carter Godwin (1875-1950), American historian, born in Buckingham County, Virginia.
		MSN Encarta - Search View - Carter G. Woodson
		Woodson later studied at Berea College, the University of Chicago, and Harvard University, receiving a Ph.D. degree from Harvard in 1912.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761578145__1/Carter_G_Woodson.html (191 words)

	Dr. Carter Woodson profiled for Black History Month on DoD. - Everthing you wanted to know about Dr. Carter Woodson profiled for Black History Month on DoD. at DealofDay.com
		Carter G. Woodson (1875-1950), the son of former slaves James and Eliza (Riddle) Woodson, was born on a small farm in New Canton, Virginia.
		Carter Godwin Woodson was the founder of Associated publishers, founder and editor of the Negro History Bulletin, and the author of more than thirty books.
		Carter Godwin Woodson has been called the father of Black History Month.
	forums.dealofday.com /showthread.php?p=776110 (582 words)

	Carter G. Woodson's offcie Reesponds to Christian
		Woodson was dean of the College of Liberal Arts and head of the graduate faculty at Howard University, Washington, D.C. (1919-20), and dean at West Virginia State College, Institute, W.Va. (1920-22).
		Woodson became a devout Christian at an early age and recognized the invaluable role the black church plan in the community.
		Woodson is abroad for the summer but your letter will br brought to his attention upon his return about October 8th.
	www.nathanielturner.com /woodsonofficerespondstochristian.htm (574 words)

	New and Featured at Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh: Black History Month: Carter G. Woodson
		Woodson was a Booker T. Washington supporter and his research was solid evidence that formerly enslaved African Americans and their descendents needed to develop industrial skills if the masses were ever to become economically self-sufficient.
		Woodson discovered that the majority of Black slave owners had bought their family members (wives, children, siblings, etc.) out of bondage and were listed in the census as their owners.
		Using primary source documents culled from the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History archives, Greene and Woodson describe the African American labor experience from the antebellum period well into the industrial revolution.
	www.clpgh.org /locations/firstfloor/hottopics/blackhistorymonth/cartergwoodson.html (1594 words)

	Carter Godwin Woodson
		Carter G. Woodson was one of the country's prominent historians and a prolific writer.
		Carter Woodson was born in New Canton, Virginia, in 1875--ten years after the 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery, was written into law.
		Called the "Father of Negro History," Carter Godwin Woodson (1875-1950) was instrumental in the founding of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History in 1915.
	www.africawithin.com /bios/carter_woodson.htm (896 words)

	cgw.html
		Carter G Woodson Carter was born on December 19, 1875 in New Canton, Virginia to James and Anne Woodson, whom were former slaves.
		Woodson was the oldest of nine children and forced to help the family by working at an early age.
		Woodson founded black history week as the second week of February and now February is black history month.
	www.itouch.net /~talisman/cgw.html (283 words)

	The 411: Carter G. Woodson Home Endangered
		Woodson, who was an avid researcher and writer on the cultures of the African diaspora, designed the ASALH as a disseminator of little known and/or often ignored sociological and historical information about the Black past in Africa and the Americas.
		Woodson had plans to publish a six volume Encyclopedia Africana, and was working on that project when he died of a heart attack on April 3, 1950.
		ASALH wants to restore the property—where Woodson lived and worked from 1923 until his death in 1950—and use the house as their headquarters and as the site for a museum and technology and educational center.
	www.seeingblack.com /x091001/woodson.shtml (704 words)

	MSN Encarta - Carter G. Woodson
		Carter G. Woodson (1875-1950), American historian, born in Buckingham County, Virginia.
		Woodson later studied at Berea College, the University of Chicago, and Harvard University, receiving a Ph.D. degree from Harvard in 1912.
		He entered high school at the age of 20 and taught elementary school for two years after his graduation.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761578145/Woodson_Carter_Godwin.html (184 words)

	Carter G. Woodson
		Carter G. Woodson: the Association For The Study Of African
		Carter Goodwin Woodson - Woodson, Carter Goodwin, 1875–1950, African-American educator, b.
		Black History Month: the History of Black History- Brief biography of Carter G. Woodson and a summary of how Black History Month began.
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0878436.html (343 words)

	Carter G. Woodson
		In 1875, Carter Woodson was born in Buckingham County, Virginia.
		Woodson was compiling his work, Encyclopaedia Africana which was not complete at the time of his death in 1950.
		Woodson then entered the University of Chicago where he received his bachelor’s and master’s degree.
	www.marshall.edu /orahist/carter.html (203 words)

	Carter G. Woodson South Elementary School
		The Carter G WoodsonSouth Elementary School vision statement holds that we strive to develop "Successful Students Moving Toward Productive Adulthood." Our school community pledges to foster in every child educational success, self-esteem, independent thinking, and the ability to function in all cultures.
		Carter G. Woodson South is a "Quest" (Chigago Teachers' Union Professional Development Project) school.
		The Carter G. Woodson South Elementary School serves 520 pre-K-4th grade students in Chicago's Grand Boulevard Community.
	www.edc.org /CCT/SCIP_II/schools/woodson.htm (298 words)

	Black History Month: the History of Black History
		Woodson chose the second week of February for Negro History Week because it marks the birthdays of two men who greatly influenced the black American population, Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln.
		Woodson, always one to act on his ambitions, decided to take on the challenge of writing black Americans into the nation's history.
		The scholar was disturbed to find in his studies that history books largely ignored the black American population—and when blacks did figure into the picture, it was generally in ways that reflected the inferior social position they were assigned at the time.
	www.infoplease.com /spot/bhmintro1.html (445 words)

	Celebrating Lives: A Glimpse of African-Americans in West Virginia
		Carter G. Woodson, when he was the Dean at West Virginia Collegiate Institute, later West Virginia State College.
		James C. Woodson was a nephew of Carter G. Woodson.
		The parents of Dr. Carter G. Woodson are buried here.
	www.wvculture.org /history/bhm11.html (206 words)

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