In 2025, the Carter G. Woodson Regional Library marks a significant milestone: its 50th anniversary. Situated at 9525 S. Halsted Street in Chicago’s Washington Heights neighborhood, the library ...

Carter G. Woodson’s classic “The Mis-Education of the Negro” still resonates in today’s charged political debates over how Black history is taught in schools.

In 1922, Carter G. Woodson, known as “the father of Black history,” bought the home at 1538 Ninth Street NW for $8,000. ... “My work space assignment was in Dr. Woodson’s library, ...

Carter G. Woodson, who started the precursor to Black History Month, wrote of Cincinnati’s Black history before the Civil War for a scholarly journal.