Carter Woodson 
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
2/14/2023
The Book that Launched Black Studies Was a Challenge to Classroom Racism
by Ibram X. Kendi
Education historian Jarvis Givens discusses a 90th anniversary edition of Carter Woodson's pathbreaking "The Mis-Education of the Negro," noting that the book was banned in Oklahoma for being "antiklan" in its efforts to overturn the pervasive message of Black inferiority in the established school curriculum.
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