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IMPROVING THE LIVES OF BLACK PEOPLE THROUGH
AWARENESS, KNOWLEDGE AND EDUCATION
IMPROVING THE LIVES OF BLACK PEOPLE THROUGH
AWARENESS, KNOWLEDGE AND EDUCATION
| AAASM Black History Research Project |
| The Origins of Black History Month |
What we now call Black History Month was originated in 1926 by Carter
Godwin Woodson as Negro History Week. The month of February was
selected in deference to Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln who
were both born in that month.
The son of a slave, Carter G. Woodson was born in New Canton, Virginia
on December 19, 1875. He began high school at the age of 20 and then
proceeded to study at Berea College, the University of Chicago, the
Sorbonne, and Harvard University, where he earned a Ph.D. in 1912.
Carter G. Woodson founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life
and History in 1915 to train Black historians and to collect, preserve, and
publish documents on Black life and Black people. He also founded the
Journal of Negro History (1916), Associated Publishers (1922), and the
Negro Bulletin (1937). Woodson spent his life working to educate all
people about the vast contributions made by Black men and women
throughout history. Mr. Woodson died on April 3, 1950 and Black History
Month is his legacy.
Carter G. Woodson, however, would be sad to know that out of all the
hundreds of Black men and women who produced so many substantial
inventions (from the development of crop rotation, the traffic light, the mail
box, gas mask, fountain pen, typewriter, telegraph, golf tee, automatic
gear shift, commode toilet--- to the method of dry cleaning clothes, the
electric lamp, and the automatic car coupler and air brake for the railroad)
benefiting this country, only four Black inventors have been inducted into
the National Inventors Hall of Fame in Akron, Ohio.
Godwin Woodson as Negro History Week. The month of February was
selected in deference to Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln who
were both born in that month.
The son of a slave, Carter G. Woodson was born in New Canton, Virginia
on December 19, 1875. He began high school at the age of 20 and then
proceeded to study at Berea College, the University of Chicago, the
Sorbonne, and Harvard University, where he earned a Ph.D. in 1912.
Carter G. Woodson founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life
and History in 1915 to train Black historians and to collect, preserve, and
publish documents on Black life and Black people. He also founded the
Journal of Negro History (1916), Associated Publishers (1922), and the
Negro Bulletin (1937). Woodson spent his life working to educate all
people about the vast contributions made by Black men and women
throughout history. Mr. Woodson died on April 3, 1950 and Black History
Month is his legacy.
Carter G. Woodson, however, would be sad to know that out of all the
hundreds of Black men and women who produced so many substantial
inventions (from the development of crop rotation, the traffic light, the mail
box, gas mask, fountain pen, typewriter, telegraph, golf tee, automatic
gear shift, commode toilet--- to the method of dry cleaning clothes, the
electric lamp, and the automatic car coupler and air brake for the railroad)
benefiting this country, only four Black inventors have been inducted into
the National Inventors Hall of Fame in Akron, Ohio.
| Black Inventors A-Z A George Alcorn Nathaniel Alexander Virgie Ammons B Benjamin Banneker Patricia Bath Andrew Jackson Beard Miriam E. Benjamin Edmond Berger Henry Blair Bessie Blount Sarah Boone Otis Boykin Charles Brooks Phil Brooks Henry Brown Marie Brown John Albert Burr C George Washington Carver George Carruthers Benjamin S. Carson Emmett W. Chappelle John Christian Donald Cotton David Crosthwait MORE....... |
