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Spring 2008 EOP Newsletter
- FA
- 29th Annual EOP Banquet
- EOP Birthday Celebrations are BACK!!!
- Director
- Mentor Program
- Black Hx
- Biography: Dr. Carter G. Woodson
- Peer Tutoring
- Kate’s Bio
- Spotlights
Biography: Dr. Carter G. Woodson
Born to parents who were former slaves, he spent his childhood working in the Kentucky coal mines and enrolled in high school at age twenty. He graduated within two years and later went on to earn a Ph.D. from Harvard. The scholar was disturbed to find in his studies that history books largely ignored the black American population-and when blacks did figure into the picture, it was generally in ways that reflected the inferior social position they were assigned at the time. Woodson, always one to act on his ambitions, decided to take on the challenge of writing black Americans into the nation's history. He established the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (now called the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History) in 1915, and a year later founded the widely respected Journal of Negro History.
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