Carter G. Woodson
Carter G. Woodson
Carter Godwin Woodson was an African-American historian, author, journalist and the founder of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History. Woodson was one of the first scholars to study African-American history. A founder of The Journal of Negro History in 1915, Woodson has been cited as the father of black history. In February 1926 he launched the celebration of "Negro History Week"; it was the precursor of Black History Month...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionHistorian
Date of Birth19 December 1875
CountryUnited States of America
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The strongest bank in the United States will last only so long as the people will have sufficient confidence in it to keep their money there.
Negro banks, as a rule, have failed because the people, taught that their own pioneers in business cannot function in this sphere, withdrew their deposits.
The large majority of the Negroes who have put on the finishing touches of our best colleges are all but worthless in the development of their people.
For me, education means to inspire people to live more abundantly, to learn to begin with life as they find it and make it better.
In fact, the confidence of the people is worth more than money.
The real servant of the people must live among them, think with them, feel for them, and die for them.
If Liberia has failed, then, it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of the failure of slavery.
This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift; it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible.
The author takes the position that the consumer pays the tax, and as such every individual of the social order should be given unlimited opportunity to make the most of himself.
Truth comes to us from the past, then, like gold washed down from the mountains.
If the Negroes are to remain forever removed from the producing atmosphere, and the present discrimination continues, there will be nothing left for them to do.
What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice.
The Negroes are facing the alternative of rising in the sphere of production to supply their proportion of the manufacturers and merchants or of going down to the graves of paupers.
We do not show the Negro how to overcome segregation, but we teach him how to accept it as final and just.