Carter G. Woodson

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• SOURCE: New York Review of Books
  6/17/2023
  

  The War on Black Studies Isn't "Culture War" – It's Part of a Long Political Battle

  by Robin D.G. Kelley

  "Who’s afraid of Black Studies? White supremacists, fascists, the ruling class, and even some liberals. As well they should be. Black Studies was born out of a struggle for freedom and a genuine quest to understand the world in order to change it."

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• SOURCE: Los Angeles Review of Books
  9/12/2021
  

  (Review) The Struggle for Black Education: On Jarvis R. Givens’s “Fugitive Pedagogy”

  by Randal Maurice Jelks

  Jarvis R. Givens's new study of the life of Carter G. Woodson emphasizes Woodson's work to advance Black education in an American social setting that was profoundly hostile to Black achievement and equality. 

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• SOURCE: ABC News
  2/8/20
  

  Carter G. Woodson and the History of Black History Month

  Since Woodson's death in 1950, the organization that he founded, the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History -- now called the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) -- has fought to keep his legacy alive.

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• SOURCE: Time
  1/31/19
  

  Burins R. Morris on what Carter G. Woodson would want Americans to do for Black History Month

  The official theme of Black History Month 2019, “Black Migrations,” is a fitting one: not only is migration one of today’s most pressing political issues, but it’s also a key part of the annual observance’s own history.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/1/19
  

  How the founder of Black History Month rebutted white racism in a forgotten manuscript

  Carter G. Woodson’s unpublished work was discovered in 2005 by a Howard University history professor.