Carter G. Woodson is considered the “father” of Black History Month, which he started as Negro History Week.
According to Bobo et al. (2004), “He received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1912 and founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History in Washington, D.C., in 1915. Woodson published the prestigious journals Journal of Negro History and Negro History Bulletin through this organization . . . and the pioneering study The Negro in Our History (1922), which for many years was the standard text in Black history and is still considered one of the finest studies documenting Black people’s culture and history” (p. 2).
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