Knowra Carter G. Woodson Carter G. Woodson Carter G. Woodson was an American historian and educator who founded the Association for the Study of African American Life and History and established Negro History Week.
Negro History Week : An annual observance of African American history, established by Carter G. Woodson in 1926. Woodson created this observance to bring African American history into public education.
New Canton, Virginia : A community in Buckingham County, Virginia, where Carter G. Woodson was born in 1875. Woodson’s life began in Virginia before his path into formal education and scholarship.
Historiography : The study of how history is written, interpreted, and shaped by evidence and perspective. Woodson challenged historical accounts that omitted or distorted African American experience.
Lorenzo Johnston Greene : An American historian and educator who researched Black history and taught at Lincoln University. Greene worked with Woodson and continued the institutional study of African American history.
Black History Month : An annual February observance of African American history in the United States and other countries. It grew from Negro History Week, which Woodson established.
Freedmen's Bureau : A federal agency established after the Civil War to support formerly enslaved people and refugees in the former Confederacy. Woodson’s parents had been enslaved, placing his family’s history within the post-emancipation era the bureau addressed.
African diaspora : The worldwide communities descended from the historic dispersal of African peoples. Woodson’s historical vision connected African American life to a broader African past.
Rayford W. Logan : An American historian and educator who studied Reconstruction and African American political history. Logan belonged to the generation of historians whose scholarship advanced the field Woodson helped organize.
Association for the Study of African American Life and History : A scholarly organization founded by Carter G. Woodson to research, preserve, and share African American history. This organization carried Woodson’s work beyond the annual history observance.
University of Chicago : A private research university in Chicago, founded in 1890. Woodson earned a bachelor's and master's degree there before pursuing doctoral study.
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