Historian
Carter G. Woodson
1875 – 1950
Second African American to earn a PhD from Harvard (after Du Bois). Founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History in 1915. Launched the Journal of Negro History in 1916 and Negro History Week in 1926, the precursor to Black History Month. Author of The Mis-Education of the Negro (1933).
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