Carter Woodson
Carter 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...
ProfessionHistorian
Date of Birth19 December 1875
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Practically all of the successful Negroes in this country are of the uneducated type or of that of Negroes who have had no formal education at all.
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Only by careful study of the Negro himself and the life which he is forced to lead can we arrive at the proper procedure in this crisis.
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If you can control a mans thinking, you dont have to worry about his actions. If you can determine what a man thinks you do not have worry about what he will do. If you can make a man believe that he is inferior, you dont have to compel him to seek an inferior status, he will do so without being told and if you can make a man believe that he is justly an outcast, you dont have to order him to the back door, he will go to the back door on his own and if there is no back door, the very nature of the man will demand that you build one.
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If the whites are to continue for some time in doing drudgery to the exclusion of, Negroes, the latter must find another way out.