2025年2月3日 · Woodson died on April 3, 1950, at age 74 as a respected and honored figure who received accolades for his vision. His legacy continues through the cultural force of Black History Month...

Carter Godwin Woodson (December 19, 1875 – April 3, 1950) [1] was an American historian, author, journalist, and the founder of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH). He was one of the first scholars to study the history of the African diaspora, including African-American history.

2025年1月31日 · Carter G. Woodson (born December 19, 1875, New Canton, Virginia, U.S.—died April 3, 1950, Washington, D.C.) was an American historian who first opened the long-neglected field of Black studies to scholars and popularized the field in …

2024年8月26日 · Carter G. Woodson was a historian and founder of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, the Journal of Negro History, and “Negro History Week.” Now known as the “Father of Black History” because of his efforts to promote African American history, Woodson wrote pioneering social histories chronicling the lives of Black ...

2007年1月18日 · Woodson, a member of Sigma Pi Phi fraternity,, died suddenly from a heart attack in his “office home” on April 3, 1950. Woodson was 74 at the time of his death. He never married and had no children.

On July 20, 1919, during the "Red Summer"—a period of intense racial violence against African Americans—as Woodson walked home along Pennsylvania Avenue, he witnessed a White mob bind and murder a Black man on the street. Woodson was able to avoid the mob, but felt he narrowly avoided his own death.

Woodson died suddenly from a heart attack in the office within his home in the Shaw, Washington, D.C. neighborhood on April 3, 1950, at the age of 74. He is buried at Lincoln Memorial Cemetery in Suitland, Maryland.

2025年2月3日 · As Burnis R. Morris, Carter G. Woodson Professor of Journalism at Marshall University, notes in his book Carter G. Woodson: History, the Black Press, and Public Relations (2017), “Although it did not hurt him scholastically, Woodson’s sporadic school attendance before (and during) his Douglass School years was not unique among African ...

Carter G. Woodson died in 1950, in Washington, D.C., at age 74, and was buried at Lincoln Memorial Cemetery in Suitland, Maryland. His home at 1538 Ninth Street, NW, is now a national historic site curated by the National Park Service .

Woodson died at the age of 74 in 1950, long before U.S. Presidents recognized Black History Month. However, his legacy lives on every February when schools across the nation study Black American history, empowering Black Americans and educating others on the achievements of Black Americans.