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December 19, 2021

Carter Godwin Woodson

December 19, 2021

Historian, writer, and educator Carter Godwin Woodson was born on this day in 1875 in Virginia. Dr. Woodson has been called the father of Black History after he founded the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), which went on to institute Negro History Week, now Black History Month.

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