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One race has not accomplished any more than any other race, for God

could not be just and at the same time make one race the inferior of the other

 

 

Books By Carter G. Woodson Books

The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861 / The Negro in Our History  / A Century of Negro Migration  . The Miseducation of the Negro

The Story of the Negro Retold (1959) / The History of the Negro Church (1990) African Myths Together with Proverbs (1928)

The African Background Outlined (1969)  /  Negro Orators and Their Orations (1925)  African Heros and Heroines (1944)

Mind of the Negro as Reflected in Letters, 1800-1860 (1991)  / Free Negro Owners of Slaves in 1830 (1969)

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Bio-Sketch

CARTER GODWIN WOODSON (b. Dec. 19, 1875, New Canton, Va., U.S.--d. April 3, 1950, Washington, D.C.). Born of a poor family, James Henry and Ann Eliza Woodsonformer slaves and later sharecroppers, Woodson worked in the coal mines of Kentucky. As a result he did not enroll in Douglass High school until he was nineteen years old. After graduation and several semesters at Berea College and a teaching assignment in Winona, West Virginia, he returned to Douglass High School, four years after his graduation, as principal.

Leaving Berea College, Woodson received his bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Chicago and in 1912 received a Ph.D in philosophy from Harvard University. The second to do so after W.E.B. Du Bois.  Carter G. Woodson's office Responds to Christian

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A Carter G. Woodson Bibliography

Books

Carter G. Woodson: A Bio-Bibliography, Jacqueline Goggin. Louisiana State University Press, reprint edition, 1997.

Carter G. Woodson: Father of African-American History, Robert Franklin Durden. Enslow Publishers, 1998.

Carter G. Woodson: The Father of Black History, Patricia McKissick, Ned Ostendorf, and Fredrick L. McKissack. Enslow Publishers, 1991.

Carter G. Woodson: A Life in Black History, Sister Anthony Scally. Greenwood Publishing Group, 1985.

A Century of Negro Migration, Carter G. Woodson. Reprint Services Corp., 1991.

Mind of the Negro As Reflected in Letters Written During the Crisis 1800-1860, Carter G. Woodson. Reprint Services Corp., 1991.

Mis-Education of the Negro, Carter G. Woodson. Red Sea Press, 1990.

Selling Black History for Carter G. Woodson: A Diary, 1930-1933, Lorenzo J. Greene and Arvarh E. Strickland (Editor). University of Missouri Press, 1996.

Through Loona's Door: A Tammy and Owen Adventure With Carter G. Woodson, Tonya Bolden, Luther Knox. Corporation for Cultural Literacy, 1997.

Working With Carter G. Woodson, the Father of Black History: A Diary, 1928-1930, Lorenzo J. Greene and Arvarh E. Strickland (Editor). Louisiana State University Press, 1989.

 

 

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