The seeds of Black History Month were sown more than 100 years ago in the South Side YMCA at 3763 S. Wabash Ave., Chicago. Carter G. Woodson, a University of Chicago alum, was staying in a room at the ...

GLEN JEAN, WV (WVNS) – Did you know the man that is responsible for the creation of Black History Month once worked and lived near the New River Gorge? Carter G. Woodson was born in 1875 in Virginia ...

WASHINGTON — As Black History Month concludes, first-phase renovations are wrapping up at the home and office of Carter G. Woodson, the man who is considered “The father of African American history.” ...

Black history doesn’t have nearly the amount of documentation and sources as many other areas of American history. That has long proved a challenge to historians of the Black experience. Carter G.

anac copy 3908020679023 purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. Contents Introduction: "Willing to Sacrifice" -- Carter G. Woodson, 1875-1950 : Black History Institution Builder -- ...