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african american STUDIES
Dr. Carter G. Woodson
Carter Godwin Woodson was an American historian, author, journalist, and the founder of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History. He was one of the first scholars to study the history of the African diaspora, including African-American history.
- Born: December 19, 1875, New Canton, VA
- Died: April 3, 1950 (age 74 years), Shaw, Washington, D.C.
- Education: Harvard University, Berea College, The University of Chicago
Black History Month Theme
Since 1976, every American president has designated February as Black History Month and endorsed a specific theme.
2025 THEME – African Americans and Labor
The 2025 Black History Month theme, African Americans and Labor, focuses on the various and profound ways that work and working of all kinds – free and unfree, skilled, and unskilled, vocational and voluntary – intersect with the collective experiences of Black people. Indeed, work is at the very center of much of Black history and culture. Be it the traditional agricultural labor of enslaved Africans that fed....
