As a child, Carter G. Woodson, the son of formerly enslaved and illiterate parents, endured the backbreaking labor of a ...

That has long proved a challenge to historians of the Black experience. Carter G. Woodson worked to change that. Best known as the Father of Black History Month for having created the predecessor ...

In the early 20th century, historian Carter G. Woodson chafed at the world’s ... critical contributions in the United States, from the military service of Crispus Attucks in the Revolutionary ...