“…Henry Boyd. After buying himself in Kentucky, he went to Cincinnati to start life as a free man. There he encountered so much prejudice against Negro labor that he could not find employment at his trade of cabinet-making. A new thought came to him, however, and in this way he solved his own problem. Boyd […]
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“The real servant of the people must live among them, think with them, feel for them, and die for them.” -Carter G. Woodson Tweet
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“History does not show that any race, especially a minority group, has ever solved an important problem by relying altogether on one thing, certainly not by parking its political strength on the side of the fence because of empty promises.” -Carter G. Woodson Tweet
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In history, of course, the Negro had no place in this curriculum. He was pictured as a human being of the lower order, unable to subject passion to reason, and therefore useful only when made the hewer of wood and the drawer of water for others. No thought was given to the history of Africa […]
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On this date in 1915, Carter G Woodson founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History. Tweet
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