Dr. Carter G. Woodson: The Manlike Individual Raise Of Dark History

 

Dr. Carter G. Woodson (b. 12/19/1875 - d. 4/3/1950)

 

doc Carter G. Woodson was i of the founders of the Association for the Study of Negro Life too History, which promoted what was unremarkably known every bit Negro history (now commonly known every bit Black history) through school, church, too fraternal grouping activities. After diligent written report and writing on Black history, inwards 1926 Woodson inaugurated Negro History Week inwards Chicago at the Wabash YMCA. Negro History Week led to the celebration of Black History Month inwards the United States. In 1976, the calendar month long observation was recognition past times too then U.S. President Gerald Ford. Woodson became known alongside his people every bit the Father of Black History. 

 

The History of the Negro Church, past times

Carter G. Woodson (Second Edition, 1921)

The Carter G. Woodson Regional Library, named later the dandy historian, holds i of the nation's largest collections of Black history too literature material. More than 70,000 books (many rare), 500 periodical titles, 5,000 reels of microfilm research, master manuscripts, too newspapers make upward a treasure breast of data called the Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection of Afro-American History too Literature. The Harsh Collection includes papers of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Freeman's Bureau papers, too a broad alternative of fine art industrial plant on paper, such every bit posters too other literary artifacts such every bit menstruum flyers.

The collection was started past times Chicago librarian Vivian G. Harsh, an avid collector of historical works. She was the first African American librarian inwards the Chicago Public Library system. Her collection became a pregnant resources for the dynamic Black thinkers inwards Chicago inwards the 1930s too 1940s, such as Arna Bontemps, Richard Wright, too Langston Hughes, alongside others.

Photo: Librarian Vivian G. Harsh (b. May 27, 1890 - Aug. 17, 1960)

The Woodson Library is located at 9525 S. Halsted Street too is a dandy source for researching African American history. If you lot catch the Woodson Library, accept time out to relish the large bronze sculpture entitled "Jacob's Ladder", created past times the renown creative mortal Richard Hunt, hosted  at the library's central atrium.