Black History Month Bio Form



44767513970Appalled at the lack of records concerning African Americans, Carter Woodson, a college history professor and the second African American to get a degree in history, devoted his life to recording the long ignored history of African Americans. After spending his early life farming and coal mining, Woodson Attended high school at the age of nineteen, and later attended Berea College, famous for accepting both black and white students at the time. After obtaining a history degree, he toured the word and learned several languages. Returning to the US, he worked at several colleges, and finally noticed something. African American contributions to history were not being documented, and he realized that if blacks could not be seen as contributors to American history they may never be seen actual Americans. He and several supportive students and fellow teachers than began to document and teach the endeavors of to date, possibly the most downtrodden culture on earth. This led to Negro history week, and later evolved to take up the entire month of February, for the purpose of encompassing the birthdays of both Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass, whose effort are credited for revealing slavery as a crime against humanity. Woodson devoted his entire life to writing the long unrecorded history of African Americans. To quote his incredible view of how he spent his life “I don’t have time to marry. I’m married to my workBooks: He wrote a dozen books and some are still used as college textbooks. they include:Century of Negro Migration (1918)Education of the Negro prior to 1861 (1951)The Negro in our history (1922)On the Web: ................
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