Black History FOREVER

What IS Black History?

Carter G Woodson was born on the 18th of December, 1875, in New Canton, West Virginia. His parents were slaves by the name of James and Eliza Woodson. He is the Historian named the "Father of Black history"

Carter Woodson used knowledge to escape poverty and would soon attend Harvard University. In 1915 the Association of Negro Life was founded, a year later Carter Woodson started writing a journal about Negro Life, now recognised as African American life.

Doctor Carter G. Woodson was the founding historian of Negro History Week, first established in 1926. Later in 1969, Kent State University expanded it into Black History Month in February 1969, a year later they celebrated Black History Month in Kent State on February, 1970.

Carter G. Woodson was lucky to live where he did, because West Virginia didn't believe in segregation or slavery. These circumstances are the reason he moved back to west Virginia, but not the only reason he did. Another reason is that they moved back for the access to African-American education, because at the time Carter G. Woodson was alive, a lot of states still believed in segregation.

Carter Woodson was a school supervisor from 1903 to 1907 then transferred to Chicago University. Carter Woodson earned a Bachelor and a Master's Degree in 1908 at the Chicago University. Carter Woodson was a coal miner for one of his jobs, and that is why this entry was entitled "Strip-mining Black History". The Father of Black History, AKA Carter Woodson was a coal miner, stories the coal miners would tell about there lives about there slave life before the civil war and after he died, they then started mountaintop removals, and by "Strip-Mining" them -Continued-...

-continued- strip-mining the history that occurred in the Appalachian mountains.

TheRoot.com helped us understand black history and so did the passage we read about Carter G. Woodson, both of these references truly understand the importance of Black History

-Summary-
Carter G. Woodson was the founding historian of Negro History Week, and he was born in 1875, in New Canton, West Virginia. In 1926, he founded Negro History Week (NHW) and then Kent University went on to create Black History Month (BHM) In February, 1969-Which wasn't very important until the twentieth century. The year after they celebrated BHM in Feb. 1970. His Inspiration for black history was... (Continued)...

...(Continued) was the stories the coal miners would tell about life as a slave before the civil war, or times they had in the mines. From 1903 to 1907 Woodson was a school supervisor in the Philippines. (Continued)...

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Soon Woodson attended the University of Chicago where he earned a Bachelor's Degree in 1908 as well as a Master's Degree also in 1908. After Carter died they started mountaintop removals, or "Strip-Mining" mountains, hence the name "Strip-Mining" Black History, meaning that Carter Woodsons life and other people's life stories in the mountains were erased. ERASED.

Lets go over what we learned today!

• Carter Woodson was born in 1875
• He was born in New Canton, West Virginia
• He was the Father of Black History
• He was a coal miner
• He was inspired by coal miners to make BHM

These passages and videos made me realize the importance of black history

This presentation was to inform you about Carter G. Woodson, and remember this...

Black history is not just a month, BLACK HISTORY IS FOREVER!

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• TheRoot.com
• zinnedproject.org
• Wikipedia.org
• Biography.com
• Harvard.edu

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