Carter G. Woodson: The Man Who Put "Black" in American History by Jim Haskins and Kathleen Benson

This book offers a frank and fascinating look at the life of Carter G. Woodson, the father of Black History who created the first organization and the first journal and the first week devoted to African-American history.  Carter G. Woodson was born in New Canton, Virginia, about thirty miles southeast of Charlottesville. At the age of 17 he moved to Huntington, West Virginia, and worked in the coal mines before enrolling in Douglas High School. After teaching for a few years, he enrolled at Berea College in Kentucky. This biography points out that we dropped out of Berea for lack of funds before returning to earn his degree. After teaching in the Phillipines, he enrolled at the University of Chicago and obtained a masters degree there. While teaching in Washington, D.C., he intermittently worked on his doctorate at Harvard and eventually became the first son of slaves, and only the second Black man - after W. E. B. DuBois - to earn a doctorate there. He was hired at Howard University,