History & Culture

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  Who was Dr. Woodson?

  Who was Dr. Carter Godwin Woodson?

  Learn more about the man who co-founded ASALH, started Negro History Week, and institutionalized the study of African American history.

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  The Office-Home

  Learn more about the pioneering work done by Dr. Woodson and others from out of this American treasure that is now a national historic site.

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  People

  Woodson's didn't work alone. Many of his associates and mentees carried forward the work of researching and sharing Black history.

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  Negro History to Black History

  Why February?

  View a video that explains why Dr. Woodson selected February for the observance of "Negro History Week", now known as "Black History Month".

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  Black History Dream Team

  The educational collaboration of Carter G. Woodson and Mary McLeod Bethune

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  Zora Neale Hurston and Cudjo's Own Story

  How the author and anthropologist documented a survivor's story of one of the last slave ships to arrive in the US