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CAWO Carter G. Woodson Home NHS Final Documents 20210318

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The exhibit’s Big Idea: Carter G. Woodson, the Father of Black History, started a movement to uplift people through knowledge.[footnoteRef:1] [1: As drafted by NPS and ASALH content team, 20190712]

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Welcome to the Home of Dr. Carter G. Woodson Birthplace of the Black History Movement

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- Dr. Carter G. Woodson, 1926[footnoteRef:2] [2: Carter G. Woodson and Charles H. Wesley, The Story of the Negro Retold, pg 437: https://books.google.com/books?id=R_90Km6cmrsC&dq=Let+truth+destroy+the+dividing+prejudices+of+nationality+and+teach+universal+love+without+distinction+of+race,+merit+or+rank.%22&source=gbs_navlinks_s]

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Lobby Significance Statement

Dr. Carter G. Woodson started a movement to uplift people through knowledge.

To Dr. Woodson, history was vital to the African American struggle for freedom. He uncovered and shared Black history to combat prejudice, celebrate African American contributions, and inspire new generations to new achievements. His work transformed how the world saw African American life, history, and culture.

Today, Dr. Woodson is known as the Father of Black History.

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Woodson Reads group Quote

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“It is not a question as to what the teacher or leader of a group may think about things but what the person taught will think about them when he has learned the facts for himself.

Every person under instruction must be given credit for having sense enough to make an inference. Facts set properly forth will tell their own story."

Dr. Carter G. Woodson, 1938[footnoteRef:3] [3: Qtd in Pero Dagbovie, Carter G. Woodson in Washington, D.C., (Charleston: The History Press, 2014), 97.]

Woodson Reads As a scholar, reading was fundamental to Woodson. But he also knew reading was a path to self-knowledge and empowerment. In his Office Home, he collected and preserved a library of thousands of materials covering history of all kinds. He agreed with some of these authors, others he debated. By reading widely and critically, Woodson equipped himself to add his own voice to history.

CE-01.04-001: Woodson Reads

1. Henry M. Stanley. In Darkest Africa or the Quest, Rescue, and Retreat of Emin Governor of Equatorial, (1891.)

2. T. Wilson's. Black Phalanx, (1890.)

3. Frederick Douglass's. My Bondage and My Freedom, (1855.)

4. Anna Julia Cooper's. A Voice from the South by a Black Woman of the South, (1892.)

5. John H. Van Evrie. White Supremacy and Negro Subordination: Or, Negroes, a Subordinate Race, and (So-Called) Slavery, Its Normal Condition, (1868.)

6. Edward Blyden. Christianity, Islam and the Negro Race, (1887.)

7. Casely Hayford. Gold Coast Native Institutions: With Thoughts upon a Healthy Imperial Policy for the Gold Coast and Ashanti, (1903.)

8. Arthur Glyn Leonard. The Lower Niger and Its Tribes, (1906.)

9. Herbert Ward. A Voice from the Congo, (1910.)

10. Thomas Pearce Bailey. Race Orthodoxy in the South and other Aspects of the Negro Question, (1914.)

11. Charles Heartman's Phillis Wheatley. Poems and Letters, First Collected Edition, (1915.)

12. William H. Holtzclaw. The Black Man’s Burden. With an introduction by Booker T. Washington, (1915.)

13. Arthur A. Schomburg. A Bibliographical Checklist of American Negro Poetry, (1916.)

14. Edward Byron Reuter. The Mulatto in the United States, (1918.)

15. Thomas Jesse Jones. Education in Africa, (1922.)

16. Josephus Roosevelt Coan. Daniel Alexander Payne: Christian Educator, (1935.)

17. William B. Hesseltine. A History of the South, (1936.) one of the few where notes are made in the margin

18. W. C. Handy. Unsung Americans Sing, (1944.)

19. Lydia Parrish. Slave Songs of the Georgia Sea Islands, (1942.)

20. John Rogers Bolles, A reply to Bishop Hopkins’ View of Slavery and a Review of the Times (1865)

21. Carl Jacob Bender, Twenty Years among African Negroes (1925)

22. John Mason Brewer, Negro Legislators in Texas and their Descendants: A History of the Negro in Texas Politics From Reconstruction to Disfranchisement (1935) signed copy; copy two is a deluxe limited edition

23. Walter Henderson Brooks, The Pastor’s Voice: A Collection of Poems (1945)

24. William Montague Cobb, The First Negro Medical Society: A History of the Medico-Chirurgical Society of the District of Columbia (1939)

25. Levi Coppin, Unwritten History (1919)

26. W.E.B. DuBois and Guy Benton Johnson, Encyclopedia of the Negro: Preparatory Volume with Reference Lists and Reports (1945)

27. John Hope Franklin, The Free Negro in North Carolina (1943)

28. Henry Highland Garnett, A Memorial Discourse (1865)

29. Marcus Garvey, Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey (1923) edited by his wife Amy Jacques Garvey

30. Dwight Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Evolution of the Negro College (1934) signed to Dr. Woodson

31. James Weldon Johnson, Black Manhattan (1930)

32. Rayford Whittingham Logan, The Diplomatic Relations of the United States with Haiti 17776 – 1891 (1941)

33. Kelly Miller, Race Adjustment: Essays on the Negro in America (1908)

34. Brailsford Reese Brazeal, The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters: Its Origin and Development (1946)

35. Arthur Schomburg, Racial Integrity: A Plea for the Establishment of a Chair of Negro History in Our Schools and Colleges (1913) Inscribed to Dr. Woodson

36. Mary Church Terrell, A Colored Woman in a White World (1940)

37. Wiley Britton, The Aftermath of the Civil War: Based on Investigation of War Claims (1924)

38. Charles Harris Wesley, The History of Alpha Phi Alpha: A Development in Negro College Life (1939)

39. Monroe Work, Negro Yearbook and Annual Encyclopedia of the Negro 1918 – 1919 (1919)

40. Lucien Bonaparte Chase, English Serfdom and American Slavery: Or, Ourselves as Others See Us (1854)

41. Edward Channing, A Student’s History of the United States (1900)

42. Mami Jordan Caver, As It Is: Or the Conditions Under Which the Race Problem Challenges the White Man’s Solution (1919)

43. Elizabeth Buffam Chace and Lucy Buffam Lovell, Two Quaker Sisters: From the Original Diaries of Elizabeth Buffam Chace and Lucy Buffam Lovell (1937)

44. Jessie Fauset, The Chinaberry Tree: A Novel of American Life (1931)

45. Thomas Monroe Campbell, The Movable School Goes to the Negro Farmer (1936)

46. Allan Wolsey Cardinall, The Natives of the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast: Their Customs, Religion and Folklore (1920)

47. T. Thomas Fortune, Black and White: Land, Labor and Politics in the South (1885)

48. Council for Democracy, The Negro and defense: A Test of Democracy (1941)

49. William Henry Crogman, Talks for the Times (1896) inscribed to Francis J. Grimke

50. William Arthur Cooper, A Portrayal of Negro Life (1936)

51. Margaret Walker, For My People (1942) inscribed to Dr. Woodson

52. Booker T. Washington, The Story of the Negro: The Rise of the Race From Slavery (1940) Peter Smith

53. Christian Frederick Damberger, Travels in the Interior of Africa: From the Cape of Good Hope to Morocco: In Caffraria, The Kingdoms of Mataman, Angola, Massi, Monoemagi, Muschako, Bahahara, Wangara, Haoussa ԍϲ… ԍϲ …between the Years 1781 to 1797 (1801)

54. Charles Sturgeon Johnson, Growing Up in the Black Belt: Negro Youth in the Rural South (1941)

55. Luther Porter Jackson, Free Negro Labor and Property Holding in Virginia, 1830 – 1860. (1942)

56. Luther Porter Jackson, Negro Office Holders in Virginia, 1865 – 1895. (1945)

57. Charles Sturgeon Johnson, The Negro in American Civilization: A Study of Negro Life and Race Relations in the Light of Social Research. (1930)

58. Elizabeth Lindsey Davis. Lifting as They Climb. (1933)

59. Frederick German Detweiler. The Negro Press in the United States (1922)

60. George Washington Cable. The Negro Question. 1890.

61. George Washington Cable. The Silent South: Together with the Freedman's Case in Equity and the Convict Lease System. (1885)

62. Charles W. Chesnutt. The Colonel's Dream (1858 – 1932). (1905)

63. Lydia Maria Child. An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans. (1833)

64. Melville Herskovits. Dahomey: An Ancient West African Kingdom. (1938)

65. William Hannibal Thomas. The American Negro: What He was, What He Is, and What He May Become: A Critical and Practical Discussion. (1901)

66. Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin. A History of the American Nation. (1913)

67. Alain LeRoy Locke and Montgomery Gregory. Plays of Negro Life: A Source-Book of Native American Drama American Drama. (1927)

68. Langston Mercer Hughes. The Big Sea. (1940) Inscribed to Dr. Woodson

69. Ida Amanda Johnson. The Michigan Fur Trade. (1919)

70. Charles Colcock Jones. The Religious Instruction of the Negroes in the United States. (1842)

71. Charles Gilbert Hine and William Thompson Davis. Legends, Stories, and Folklore of Old Staten Island. (1925)

72. Caroline Stewart Bond Day. A Study of Some Negro-White Families in the United States. (1932) Note: copy has been edited to eliminate redundancy between Woodson Reads, Woodson Writes, Woodson Reaches Out

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Woodson Writes group

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“If a race has no history, if it has no worth-while tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated."

Dr. Carter G. Woodson, 1926[footnoteRef:4] [4: Qtd in The Mind of Carter G. Woodson as Reflected in the Books He Owned, Read and Published (Atlanta: Emory University, 2006), 25.]

Woodson Writes Woodson was a scientific scholar who researched and documented neglected African American contributions and achievements. Through writing—books, newspaper articles, commentaries, and letters—he challenged the myth that the Black race has no history. As an author and publisher, he shared his knowledge with the world to inspire, enlighten, and empower.

CE-01.04-002: Books and publications Woodson wrote or co-wrote:[footnoteRef:5] [5: Pero Dagbovie and the National Park Service, "Willing to Sacrifice" Historic Resource Study, pg 240]

1. The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861: A History of the Education of the Colored People of the United States from the Beginning of Slavery to the Civil War. 1915.

2. A Century of Negro Migration, 1918.

3. The History of the Negro Church, 1921.

4. Fifty Years of Negro Citizenship as Qualified by the United States Supreme Court, 1921.

5. The Case of the Negro, 1921

6. Early Negro Education in West Virginia, 1921

7. The Negro in Our History, 1922

8. Free Negro Owners of Slaves in the United States in 1830: Together with Absentee Ownership of Slaves in the United States in 1830, 1924.

9. Free Negro Heads of Families in the United States in 1830: Together with a Brief Treatment of the Free Negro, 1925.

10. Negro Orators and their Orations, 1926.

11. Ten Years of Collection and Publishing the Records of the Negro, 1926.

12. The Mind of the Negro as Reflected in Letter Written During the Crisis 1800-1860, 1926.

13. Negro Makers of History, 1928.

14. African Myths Together with Proverbs: A Supplementary Reader Composed of Folk Tales from Various Parts of Africa. 1928.

15. The Negro as Businessman, 1929.

16. The Negro Wage Earner, 1930.

17. The Rural Negro, 1930.

18. The Mis-Education of the Negro (special emphasis with series of reprints)

19. The Negro Professional Man and the Community: With Special Emphasis on the Physician and the Lawyer, 1934.

20. The Story of the Negro Retold, 1935

21. The African Background Outlined, 1936.

22. African Heroes and Heroines, 1939.

23. The Works of Frances J. Grimke, 1942.

Note: copy has been edited to eliminate redundancy between Woodson Reads, Woodson Writes, Woodson Reaches Out

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Woodson Reaches Out group Quote

“If the Negro is to settle down to publishing merely what others permit him to bring out, the world will never know what the race has thought and felt and attempted and accomplished and the story of the Negro will perish with him.”

Dr. Carter G. Woodson, 1937[footnoteRef:6] [6: Qtd in The Mind of Carter G. Woodson as Reflected in the Books He Owned, Read and Published, 11]

Woodson Reaches Out Woodson did not believe in “knowledge for its own sake.” History had to be shared—especially with the Black community across the nation, young and old. His scholarly association connected teachers, students, churches, businesses, philanthropists, and political leaders. And through his publishing company, he brought the work of Black writers to new audiences.

CE-01.04-003: Books, publications and materials produced by the Associated Publishers[footnoteRef:7] [7: Pero Dagbovie and the National Park Service, "Willing to Sacrifice" Historic Resource Study, pg 240]

1. Bond, Frederick Weldon. The Negro and Drama. 1940

2. Bond, Horace Mann. Negro Education in Alabama: A Study in Cotton and Steel. 1939

3. Brown, George W. The Economic History of Liberia, 1941

4. Coleman, Edward Maceo. Creole Voices: Poems in French by Free men of Color, 1945.

5. Cook, Mercer. Five French Negro Authors, 1943.

6. Cuney-Hare, Maud. Negro Musicians and their Music, 1936.

7. Daniel, Sadie I. Women Builders, 1931.

8. Delafosse, Maurice. The Negroes of African History and Culture, 1931.

9. Derricotte, Elise Palmer, Jessie H. Roy and Geneva Calcier Turner. Word Pictures of the Great. 1941.

10. Dykes, Eva Beatrice. The Negro in Romantic English Thought, 1942.

11. Fleming, Beatrice Jackson and Marion Jackson Pryde, Distinguished Negroes Abroad

12. Hambly, Wilifrid Dyson, Talking Animals, 1949.

13. Hambly Wilifred Dyson, Clever Hands of the African Negro, 1945.

14. Henderson, Edwin Bancroft, The Negro in Sports, 1929.

15. Hill, John H. Princess Malah, 1933.

16. Jackson, Algernon B. Jim and Mr. Eddy, 1931.

17. Kerlin, Robert T. Negro Poets and their Poems, 1931.

18. Mazyck, Walter H. George Washington and the Negro, 1932.

19. McBrown, Gertrude Parthenia and Lois M. Jones, The Picture Poetry Book, 1936.

20. Miller, Kelly. The Everlasting Stain, 1923.

21. Miller, Willis and May Richardson. Negro History in Thirteen Plays, 1935.

22. Newsome, Effie Lee. Gladiola Garden: Poems of Outdoors and Indoors for 2nd Grade Readers, 1944.

23. Paynter, John H. Fugitives of the Pearl, 1930.

24. Quarles, Benjamin. Frederick Douglass, 1948.

25. Ramos, Arthur. The Negro in Brazil, 1939.

26. Richardson, Willis and J.L. Wells, Plays and Pageants from the Life of the Negro, 1930.

27. Roy, Jessie H. and Geneva Turner, Pioneers of Long Ago, 1951

28. Rousseve, Charles Barthelemy, The Negro in Louisiana, Aspects of History and Literature, 1937.

29. Schoenfeld, Seymour J. The Negro in the Armed Forces, His Value and Status - Past, Present, and Potential, 1945.

30. Shackelford, Jane D. My Happy Days, 1944, 1946.

31. Shackelford, Jane D. The Child's Story of the Negro, 1938. This important book sold very well. Woodson had great things to say about Shackelford.

32. Simpson, Georgina R. Toussaint L’Ouverture, 1925.

33. Taylor, A. A. The Negro in Tennessee, 1865-1880, 1941.

34. Trent-Johns, Altona. Play Songs of the Deep South, 1944.

35. Van Duesen, John George. The Black Man in White America

36. Wesley, Charles H. The Collapse of the Confederacy, 1937.

37. Whiting, Helen A. Negro Art, Music and Rhyme for Young Folks, Books 1 and 2, 1938

38. Whiting, Helen A. Negro Folktales, 1938

39. Yancey, Bessie Woodson. Echoes from the Hills: A Book of Poems, 1939 Note: copy has been edited to eliminate redundancy between Woodson Reads, Woodson Writes, Woodson Reaches Out

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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION / © SCURLOCK STUDIO

4th United States Colored Infantry, around 1863

COURTESY LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

Frederick Douglass, 1862

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Crispus Attucks shot during the Boston Massacre, 1770

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Toussaint Louverture, 1805

COURTESY JOHN CARTER BROWN LIBRARY

Benjamin Banneker, 1795

MARYLAND CENTER FOR HISTORY AND CULTURE

Phyllis Wheatley, 1773

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ID727 Douglass

ID726 Attucks

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COURTESY LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

Booker T. Washington, 1895

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W.E.B. DuBois, around 1919

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History class at the Tuskegee Institute, 1902

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ID954 Washington

ID982 DuBois

ID737 Tuskegee

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COURTESY LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

Harriet Tubman, 1913

COURTESY TENNESSEE STATE LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES

Cooper A.M.E. Choir, 1929

© AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM AND LIBRARY AT OAKLAND

Students at Howard University, 1870

COURTESY MOORLAND-SPINGARN RESEARCH CENTER, HOWARD UNIVERSITY

Woodson's library The books on these shelves are representations of those that Woodson owned, wrote, or published through Associated Publishers.

STUART A. ROSE LIBRARY, EMORY UNIVERSITY; © ASALH; NPS

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The Office Home intro Quote

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“The first floor was given over to the mail-order work of the Association. Woodson's office was on the second floor—and what an office! Papers and letters and galley proofs covered the desk. But there seemed to be actually no disorder. The editor probably did more high-grade work at that desk than any editor I know. Woodson lived, that is, slept, on the third floor of the small building."

- Lawrence Dunbar Reddick, historian and Woodson mentee, 1953[footnoteRef:9] [9: Lawrence Dunbar Reddick, “As I Remember Woodson,” Negro History Bulletin, November 1953]

The Office Home Woodson purchased the house at 1538 Ninth Street NW in 1922. He lived and worked in his Office Home for the rest of his life.

The building was not only his modest home, it was headquarters of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History and his company, the Associated Publishers, Inc. From the Office Home, the Association wrote The Journal of Negro History and The Negro History Bulletin and initiated what we now celebrate as Black History Month. Woodson also made the home a “free reference bureau,” with research materials, a mentoring center, and a neighborhood museum open to all.

Here, Woodson and his colleagues built a Black history movement.

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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION / © SCURLOCK STUDIO

ID414 Woodson at his desk

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First Floor Visitors were greeted in a reception area. Staff worked on this floor, including packaging publications and educational materials for shipping.

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Second Floor Woodson studied and worked with colleagues on the second floor, where his library and personal office were located. Staff sometimes gathered in the home’s modest kitchen to discuss work while Woodson fixed breakfast.

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Third Floor Woodson lived simply and used nearly the whole building for offices and book storage, including the basement. His bedroom and living room on the third floor were his only personal spaces, where few visitors were invited. Woodson passed away in his bedroom in 1950.

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Now called the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, the organization once again has an office at the Woodson site.

ID947 ASALH logo

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Ranger Desk

Carter G. Woodson Home National Historic Site

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Orientation

[please see graphic for other orientation labeling] CE-01.07-001 tactile orientation map, plan views all three buildings, all four floors

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Dr. Carter G. Woodson, The Mis-Education of the Negro, 1933[footnoteRef:10] [10: Study Guide To: The Mis-Education of the Negro by Carter Godwin Woodson, ASALH. http://asalh.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/final-woodson-mis-education-study-guide-2008.pdf]

Please note, this signature quote has Dr. Woodson’s full name as attribution. Other quotes will be “Dr. Woodson”

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Woodson as Laborer

Dr. Carter G. Woodson, 1920[footnoteRef:11] [11: Qtd in Carter G. Woodson in Washington, by Dr. Pero Dagbovie, page 226]

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Introduction

80/6.4 Struggle for Light Woodson was born into a rural family, the fourth of nine children.[footnoteRef:12] His parents, once enslaved, raised him with a strong character and a thirst for education. [12: https://www.nps.gov/cawo/learn/carter-g-woodson-biography.htm]

His family had little money, and Woodson worked to help them survive. Hard labor gave him endurance and respect for the Black working class. Even as a scholar, he said, “I am a coal miner and I can take almost anything.” [footnoteRef:13] Early struggles gave Woodson the strength to take on his life’s work. [13: Qtd by Dr. Dagbovie in Additional Comments for Content Outline.docx]

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Woodson as Laborer

“Book Mark” Event Marker

46/6.7 Jim Crow Woodson came of age in a time when whites segregated the races and controlled the vote. They cornered Black workers into low-wage jobs like sharecropping and defunded Black schools. Terrorists used violence to enforce white supremacy. Legal and widespread, the way of life that young Woodson knew was called Jim Crow.

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WOODSON—© ASALH; MOTHER AND SISTER—WEST VIRGINIA STATE ARCHIVES

ID419 Woodson as a young man ID020 Anne Eliza Riddle Woodson ID021 Bessie Woodson Yancey

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Woodson’s family preserved and passed down its history. He learned that families are vital keepers of Black history.

COURTESY MARION PRYDE, WOODSON’S COUSIN

Family tree graphic adapted from ID442

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95/6.1 A Working Education Long workdays kept Woodson from the classroom. Instead, he learned from his schoolteacher uncles and listened to his parents’ account of slavery. He taught himself to read and shared knowledge with his family.

At 17, Woodson became a coal miner. He met Civil War veterans in the mines whose stories seeded his love of history. By 19, he earned enough to enroll in high school. Studying between shifts, he finished in two years.

He never forgot what he learned from “regular people” and made it his mission to share their stories with the world. [footnoteRef:14] [14: https://www.nps.gov/neri/learn/historyculture/carter-g-woodson.htm]

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Woodson spent six years digging and loading coal in order to attend Douglass High School—one of the few Black schools in his area.

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Coal miner’s work clothes, lamp, pickaxe, and lunch pail (reproductions)

Unknown miners in Red Star, West Virginia, 1908 Many African Americans found work in the booming coal industry, including Woodson’s hero Booker T. Washington and the young man in this photo, who would have been about Woodson’s age.[footnoteRef:15] [15: For further information on Nuttalburg mines, see National Register nomination paperwork (Nuttallburg_NR_nomination.pdf)]

ID234 Nuttalburg

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A History of the Negro Troops in the War of Rebellion, 1861-1865 George Washington Williams Oliver Jones was a Civil War veteran and coal miner who worked with Woodson. Jones opened his home as an informal school and meeting place for miners. Woodson read to the miners—many veterans themselves—from Jones’s history book collection, including this volume.

A History of Negro Troops

IAN BRABNER RARE AMERICANA

United States Colored Troops at the Battle of Milliken’s Bend, 1863

These soldiers won their freedom Their courage made them citizens CE-02.02-005 superscale books

ID673 Book image: Negro Troops

ID684 Milliken’s Bend

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History of the Negro Race in America from 1619-1880 George Washington Williams Williams was a veteran, clergyman, and politician. His book also covers wide ground, from African cultures to the American Civil War. It became one of the most popular books of its kind. Williams’s fact-based writing inspired Woodson’s commitment to rigorous research.

George Washington Williams

HARVARD UNIVERSITY / GOOGLE

The first scientifically researched Black history book from a Black historian CE-02.02-005 superscale books

ID923 Washington portrait and signature

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Woodson as student/scholar Introduction

88/8 A Remarkable Rise Within five years, Woodson went from self-tutored coal miner, to teacher, to principal of the very high school he had attended. A handful of years after that, he had the first of several degrees.

Woodson’s work ethic propelled him all the way to Harvard where he earned his PhD in 1912. There, Edward Channing, Woodson’s American history professor, told him that “the Negro had no history.”[footnoteRef:16] Woodson focused on gathering the knowledge to prove him wrong. He recruited others to join him and laid the foundation of the early Black history movement. [16: Qtd by Dr. Dagbovie in Additional Comments for Content Outline.docx]

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“Book Mark” Event Marker

61/8.2 The Red Summer During World War I, the nation called on Black citizens to work on the home front and fight abroad. At war’s end, alarmed whites feared they would demand new rights, jobs, and recognition of their contributions. Anti-Black riots broke out in dozens of cities, including Woodson’s Washington, DC. Hundreds of people—overwhelmingly Black—were killed during the bloody “Red Summer.”

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Subsection level I

80/9.4 Learning to Teach Woodson built his early career in the classroom. First, he taught coal miners’ children in West Virginia. Then, as Supervisor of Schools in the Philippines, he saw how courses imposed by American administrators fell short. Students responded better to their own history, he learned.[footnoteRef:17] [17: Carter Woodson, Mis-Education of the Negro, Cosmo Distribution, 2017. pg 110]

He traveled the world, learned French and Spanish, and in 1909, settled down to teach in Washington, DC. He pushed for vocational training, created adult education programs, and introduced the first Black history classes at Howard University. [footnoteRef:18] [18: Pero Dagbovie, Carter Woodson in Washington, DC: The Father of Black History, The History Press, 2014. pg 45]

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COURTESY BURNIS MORRIS / WEST VIRGINIA STATE UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES

ID679 Douglass students

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COURTESY MOORLAND-SPINGARN RESEARCH CENTER, HOWARD UNIVERSITY / © ASALH

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Woodson as student/scholar

Graduates Douglass High School Completes the four-year program in two

Attends Lincoln University and Berea College Leaves Berea due to difficult finances

Becomes a teacher, then principal Teaches miners’ children then becomes principal at Douglass High School

Graduates Berea College Earns first Bachelor of Arts

Travels abroad Works in the Philippines and travels to Africa, Asia, and Europe

Starts teaching in DC schools Becomes known for the difficulty of his classes

Graduates University of Chicago Earns his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in one year

Graduates Harvard University Becomes the only person of enslaved parents to earn a doctorate in history[footnoteRef:19] [19: Dagbovie, Carter Woodson in Washington, 27]

Becomes Dean Howard University School of Liberal Arts

Becomes Dean West Virginia State University

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Tactile Globe, text at pull out drawer

New Canton, VA – Birthplace Huntington, WV – Worked as a miner, attended Douglass High School Washington, DC – Attended school, based his career, lived until his death Oxford, PA – Attended Lincoln University Berea, KY – Attended Berea College Chicago, IL – Attended University of Chicago Philippines – Served as Superintendent of Schools Cambridge, MA – Attended Harvard University Paris, France – Took classes at the Sorbonne, learned French Africa, Asia, Europe — Visited on his travels

CE-02.03-001 Woodson’s travels tactile globe

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In the fall of 1897, Woodson attended the abolitionist-founded Berea College in Kentucky. It took him about five years to receive a degree because he faced financial challenges and engaged in numerous Black uplift activities.

COURTESY LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

Harvard University doctoral gown (reproduction)

Woodson’s degrees and certificates (reproductions)

COURTESY MOORLAND-SPINGARN RESEARCH CENTER, HOWARD UNIVERSITY / © ASALH

Woodson’s appointment to the Philippines (reproduction) and Filipino slippers

COURTESY NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION; THE CARTER G. WOODSON NHS

Artifact case CA-02.03:

· CE-02.03-009: Prop or reproduction Harvard graduation robe, cap with tassel

· CE-02.03 series: Reproduction educational degrees Woodson earned (7 total)

· AO-02.03-468 Slippers Woodson acquired during his time in the Philippines

· CE-02.03-010 War Department appointment to the Philippines letter

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CA-02.03 Captions Students at Berea College, around 1889 In the fall of 1897, Woodson attended the abolitionist-founded Berea College in Kentucky. It took him about five years to receive a degree because he faced financial challenges and engaged in numerous Black uplift activities.

COURTESY LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

Harvard University doctoral gown (reproduction)

Woodson’s degrees and certificates (reproductions)

COURTESY MOORLAND-SPINGARN RESEARCH CENTER, HOWARD UNIVERSITY / © ASALH

Woodson’s appointment to the Philippines (reproduction) and Filipino slippers

COURTESY NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION; THE CARTER G. WOODSON NHS

Artifact case CA-02.03:

· CE-02.03-009: Prop or reproduction Harvard graduation robe, cap with tassel

· CE-02.03 series: Reproduction educational degrees Woodson earned (7 total)

· CE-02.03-010 War Department appointment to the Philippines letter

IM-02.03-013 object image, Filipino slippers

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Superscale book call out, captions, text at bottom

89/9.6

The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861 Carter G. Woodson This study of Black education before the Civil War was Woodson’s first book. It was hailed as “a chapter in a history that has yet to be written.”[footnoteRef:20] W.E.B. DuBois called it “the most significant book concerning the Negro race” published that year.[footnoteRef:21] [20: Robert E. Park, "The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861: The History of the Education of the Colored People of the United States From the Beginning of Slavery to the Civil War. Carter Goodwin Woodson ," American Journal of Sociology 21, no. 1 (Jul., 1915): 119-120, https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdfplus/10.1086/212480] [21: Dagbovie, Carter G. Woodson in Washington, 40.]

Researching material, Woodson found that “the accounts of the successful strivings of Negroes for enlightenment under most adverse circumstances read like beautiful romances of a people in an heroic age.”[footnoteRef:22] For the rest of his career, he worked to help the Black community in its striving. [22: Carter G. Woodson, The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861, Project Gutenberg eBook, 2004. Preface. http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/11089/pg11089-images.html]

New York African Free School, a school for children of the enslaved and free people of color

NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY

“Teaching the Freedmen,” by Lois Mailou Jones

© ASALH

Inspired to write by those who were inspired to learn

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ID924 NY African Free School

ID615 Freedmen illustration by Jones (it said 916, but I searched the IM schedule and believe it to be 615 - Avery)

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Superscale book call out, captions, text at bottom

63/8.7

The History of the Negro Church

Woodson called the church “the greatest asset of the race” and a cornerstone of the community. But his book on the church had at least one critic. W.E.B. DuBois remarked that Woodson collected and organized a tremendous number of facts, but produced a dry piece of academic writing.[footnoteRef:23] Later in his career, Woodson adapted his style to appeal to a wider, general public. [23: Dagbovie, Carter G. Woodson in Washington, 40.]

Baptism service on the Mississippi River, around 1912

Family worship, South Carolina, 1863

COURTESY NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY

Woodson writes about churches’ “uplift of the groups far down”[footnoteRef:24] [24: Carter G. Woodson, The History of the Negro Church, Chapter 2. Via https://flexpub.com/ofpreview/the-history-of-the-negro-church]

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ID995 Baptism service

ID975 Family worship Please note image change:

Fees for the original baptism image would be over $400 and permissions and fees require renewal every five years. Found an alternative image, ID995, equally as well suited to the interpretive point, free of cost and restrictions.

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Woodson as student/scholar

Superscale book call out, captions, text at bottom

75/8.5

A Century of Negro Migration

In the early 1900s, the vast majority of African Americans lived in the rural South. Woodson studied their migration north and west, toward jobs, opportunities, and freedoms. He saw that they “recently realized that they have freedom of body and they will now proceed to exercise that right.” At the same time, Woodson noted challenges they faced and “how they have often been deceived.”[footnoteRef:25] The mass exodus is called the Great Migration today. [25: Carter G. Woodson, A Century of Negro Migration, Project Gutenberg eBook, 2004. Preface. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/10968/10968-8.txt]

Migrants who created a Black community in Nicodemus, Kansas

Tracing the journeys that transformed the nation

CE-02.03-011

ID925 Nicodemus

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Subsection level I, at textrail

7613.1 The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History Woodson believed in a “scientific” approach to history—careful, organized, and documented research that would reveal an accurate picture of the Black experience.

To take on this work, Woodson co-founded the first organization of its kind. Together with Dr. George Cleveland, W.B. Hartgrove, Alexander L. Jackson, and James Stamps, Woodson created the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History in 1915. Its historical “investigators” would “explore fields of Negro history hitherto neglected or unknown.”

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First Issue, 1916

· The Association created The Journal of Negro History in 1916. It set a new standard for scholarly publications on Black history. Woodson edited and got the first issue to print largely on his own.

· The Journal carried ads and book reviews to encourage sales of scholarly works by Black authors.

· In each edition, the Association included a call to the community to help support its mission.

· The Journal’s content ranged widely. The first issue included in-depth articles on African Americans in Cincinnati, a biography, and a study of African proverbs. The issue totaled more than a hundred pages of material.

· The Notes section marked milestones, like the death of Booker T. Washington, and reported on new work in the field. The Journal supported the Black scholarly community and promoted connection. Now called The Journal of African American History, it is the oldest and leading Black history publication of its kind.

ID499, selection of 7 pages with call out notes (one note per page)

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The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, Inc.

It is a reflection on Americans that practically nothing has been done to save and publish the records of the Negro Race.

In centuries to come when scholars after forgetting the prejudices of this age will begin to make researches for the whole truth, they will have only one side of the question, if the Negro does not leave something to tell his own story.

On September 9, 1915, a number of persons, seeing this need and willing to assume the financial burden of starting the movement, met in Chicago and organized “The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History.” The aim of the Association is to raise funds to employ several investigators to collect all historical and sociological material bearing on the Negro, before it is lost to the world.[footnoteRef:26] [26: ASNLH, The Journal of Negro History, “A Neglected Work,” first issue, 1916. ]

ID499

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CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY, VIVIAN HARSH COLLECTION

ID150 Anniversary committee

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COURTESY MOORLAND-SPINGARN RESEARCH CENTER, HOWARD UNIVERSITY / © ASALH

ID290 Membership certificate

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COURTESY MOORLAND-SPINGARN RESEARCH CENTER, HOWARD UNIVERSITY / © ASALH

ID214 Convention program

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Woodson as publisher/ popularizer Introduction

74/10.5 The Father of Black History Woodson was a scientific scholar who made Black history a professional field of study. But he was also a “mass educator” who brought history to the people. He created a magazine designed for a general audience, developed home study materials for working-class students, and published children’s books. In 1926 he established Negro History Week, a national celebration we observe as Black History Month. To Woodson, knowledge was the basis for pride and achievement, and it should be shared.

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49/7.7 The Great Depression The worst economic crisis in US history entered its fourth year. Funding for Woodson’s work grew scarce. At the same time, he stopped taking support from white foundations who wished to control his writing. Woodson’s thrift, efficiency, and contributions from the Black community helped him weather the lean years.

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63/10 Speaking the Truth At a time when white publishing companies regularly discriminated against Black authors, Woodson founded his own. His Associated Publishers, Inc. challenged negative stereotypes about Black peoples’ past.

By the early 1930s, the Association and the publishing company were largely funded by the Black community. Woodson said of the company, “We have no desire to make money. We seek merely to serve humanity.” [footnoteRef:27] [27: Qtd in Pero Dagbovie, Carter Woodson in Washington, DC. pg 80]

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35/7.8 The Negro History Bulletin, first published 1937 Designed to appeal, the Bulletin carried topics of interest to schoolteachers, students, and young readers. It also featured custom art and photography to help Woodson reach the masses with his message. The Bulletin is still in print today.

© ASALH

CE-02.04-014: Tactile NHB covers:

· ID503.2: NHB cover, October 1937 (first issue)

· ID505.3: NHB cover, November 1941

· ID506.1: NHB cover, April 1944

· ID511.3: NHB cover, November 1965

· ID511.10: NHB cover, March 1967

· ID512.5 NHB cover, May 1968

· ID513.9: NHB cover, January 1971

· ID513.14: NHB cover October 1971

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This sign hung on the Office Home, headquarters of the Association and Woodson's publishing company from 1922 to 1971. In 2001, Association member Earl Richardson removed the sign for safe keeping. A replica now hangs outside.

THE CARTER G. WOODSON HOME NHS

AO-02.08-598 Original building sign

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18/13.7 The Office Home Not only was this building home to the Association and Woodson's publishing company, the Office Home operated as a “free reference bureau” supplying information, research, and materials to anyone who asked.

© AFRO-AMERICAN NEWSPAPER ARCHIVES AND RESEARCH CENTER

ID041

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Founds Associated Publishers, 1922 It becomes an outlet for Black authors when white publishers refused to print Black histories.

Creates Negro History Week, 1926 The Association provides teaching kits with celebration ideas, but encourages people to create their own unique programs.

Starts a Home Study Program, 1927 Woodson takes “school to the student” through mail-in courses. The program helps create educators.

Publishes original works 1920s-1930s Woodson produces more than a book a year, while also penning 100 articles for national newspapers.

Creates The Negro History Bulletin, 1937 The magazine uses appealing design and content to connect with everyday people.

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Woodson’s most famous work provoked controversy. He took aim at “highly educated Negroes,” calling upon them to make sacrifices for the masses of Black people.

THE CARTER G. WOODSON HOME NHS

The Negro in Our History, signed by Woodson

THE CARTER G. WOODSON HOME NHS

Woodson’s desk chair and typewriter

THE CARTER G. WOODSON HOME NHS

Black history materials produced by Woodson and the Association, 1930s-1940s (reproductions)

CA-02.04 Artifact case items:

· AO-02.04-469: Desk Chair

· AO-02.04-454: Oliver Standard Type Writer

· AO-02.04-999: Negro in Our History, signed by Woodson

· AO-02.04-534, a first edition of The Mis-Education of the Negro

· CE-02.04-012: Stack of books on chair

· Reproduction documents:

· ID581 NHW program, 1934

· ID586 NHW poster, 1943

· ID584 NHW poster, 1945

· ID273: Advertisement for the Negro in Our History by Carter G. Woodson

· ID587 NHW breakfast photo, 1943

· ID580 NHW hand drawn poster, 1937, by the CCC

· ID504.11: NHB October 1940 cover

· ID574 ASNLH brochure for the Bulletin with goal of the publication clearly articulated

· ID633 Every Kind of Book on the Negro Available, Associated Publishers ad, 1930

· ID345 Ad for books published by Associated Publishers

· ID440 Home Study brochure

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ROTATION LABEL

CA-02.04 Captions

The Mis-Education of the Negro, first edition, 1933 Woodson’s most famous work provoked controversy. He took aim at “highly educated Negroes,” calling upon them to make sacrifices for the masses of Black people.

THE CARTER G. WOODSON HOME NHS

The Negro in Our History

THE CARTER G. WOODSON HOME NHS

Woodson’s desk chair and typewriter

THE CARTER G. WOODSON HOME NHS

Black history materials produced by Woodson and the Association, 1930s-1940s (reproductions)

© ASALH

CA-02.04 Artifact case items:

· AO-02.04-469: Desk Chair

· AO-02.04-454: Oliver Standard Type Writer

· AO-02.04-534, a first edition of The Mis-Education of the Negro

· CE-02.04-013:: Negro in Our History, prop rotation copy

· CE-02.04-012: Stack of books on chair

· Reproduction documents:

· ID581 NHW program, 1934

· ID586 NHW poster, 1943

· ID584 NHW poster, 1945

· ID273: Advertisement for the Negro in Our History by Carter G. Woodson

· ID587 NHW breakfast photo, 1943

· ID580 NHW hand drawn poster, 1937, by the CCC

· ID504.11: NHB October 1940 cover

· ID574 ASNLH brochure for the Bulletin with goal of the publication clearly articulated

· ID633 Every Kind of Book on the Negro Available, Associated Publishers ad, 1930

· ID345 Ad for books published by Associated Publishers

· ID440 Home Study brochure

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“When you control a man’s thinking, you do not have to worry about his actions…. He will find his proper place and stay in it. You do not need to send him to the back door… in fact, if there is no back door, he will cut one for his special benefit. His education makes it necessary.”

The Mis-Education of the Negro Carter G. Woodson Woodson’s most reprinted book is a harsh critique. He charged that elite Black educators, professionals, and spokespersons were failing their “downtrodden people.” Mis-educated Black students were taught to look down on African culture and deny the value of their own heritage and history—robbing them of self-respect and pride. Woodson urged readers to liberate themselves from “slave psychology” and provoke radical change.

The Mis-Education of the Negro

NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY / © ASALH

Woodson, 1930

WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY / WEST VIRGINIA REGIONAL AND HISTORY CENTER

Woodson makes a call to action

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ID928 Mis-Education book image

02.04 popularizer Superscale book call out, caption and text at bottom

39/12.9

African Myths together with Proverbs

Woodson published many children’s books to share a positive picture of Black culture and heritage with young readers. In the African oral storytelling tradition, this book contains imaginative stories of life and death, animals and spirits, kings and tricksters.

Illustrations from African Myths

Woodson tells the tales of Africa

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39/9.8

The Negro in Our History Carter G. Woodson and Charles H. Wesley With their textbook, Woodson and Wesley showed Black history is part of world history. Woodson said: “We should emphasize not Negro History, but the Negro in history. What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice. There should be no indulgence in undue eulogy of the Negro. The case of the Negro is well taken care of when it is shown how he has influenced the development of civilization.”[footnoteRef:28] [28: Qtd in Dr. Dagbovie, 98. Negro History Week circular, 1927.]

The Negro in Our History

Composition class, Washington, DC, 1942

Setting a new standard for Black students

ID927 Book image Negro in Our History

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Woodson’s Washington Subsection Level I text

91/8.4 Woodson’s Washington Woodson’s Shaw…