Starting in the school year 2024–25, W. T. Woodson High School will be officially known as the Carter G. Woodson High School, named in honor of the distinguished Black author, educator and ...

That event is just one of many ways to celebrate Black History Month, which was launched in 1926 as Negro History Week, thanks to historian Carter G. Woodson and minister Jesse E. Moorland, who wanted ...

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 ...

When Woodson Library first opened at 9525 S. Halsted St. on December 19, 1975, the date was probably no coincidence, for it landed exactly 100 years after the birth of the man for whom the library was ...

Pages from an Associated Publishers piece written by Carter G. Woodson, “Negro Makers of History.” (Photos: Library of Congress) A few years later, in 1926, Woodson announced the launch of ...

The origins of Black History Month can be traced back to 1915, when Dr. Carter G. Woodson, ... Waddell started out working in construction before working at the Worcester Public Library.

The first iteration of Black History Month was organized in 1926 by Carter G. Woodson, the son of formerly enslaved people and the second Black person to earn a PhD from Harvard University.

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - The Carter G. Woodson Library was once the only public library open to African Americans in Pender County. It all started in 1944 when Mary D. Smith led an effort to fund a ...

Carter G. Woodson was mad. His anger was steeped in a radical and restorative rage informed by the righteous fury of a scholar who witnessed the systematic erasure of Black history, culture, and ...

Negro Achievement Week was the brainchild of historian Carter G. Woodson, and it is the forerunner of what has become Black History Month. Philadelphia hosted the third such weeklong celebration of ...

Fittingly, the Chicago Public Library’s repository for the gold nuggets of Black history is named for its godfather: Woodson Regional Library at 9525 S. Halsted St. Carter Woodson was born in ...