Black Fact = 1950(April 3) – Carter Godwin Woodson, the “Father of Black History,” died in Washington, DC, on this date in 1950. He started what is now known as “Black History Month” and founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History.
Born in 1875 in New Canton, Virginia, Carter G. Woodson was the second African American to receive a doctorate from Harvard, after W.E.B. Du Bois. Known as the “Father of Black History,” Woodson dedicated his career to the field of African-American history and lobbied extensively to establish Black History Month as a nationwide institution. He also wrote many historical works, including the 1933 book The Mis-Education of the Negro. He died in Washington, D.C., in 1950.
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