Carter G. Woodson
Founder of Negro History Week — predecessor to Black History Month — and the Association for the Study of African American Life and History.
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Born 1875 in New Canton, VA. Second Black American to earn a Harvard PhD. Launched Negro History Week in 1926 from his DC home, now the Carter G. Woodson Home NHS.
Location
Washington, DC, USA
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