Carter Woodson's Journal of Negro History Expands Scholarly Reach

The Journal of Negro History, founded by Carter G. Woodson in 1916, expanded its scholarly reach in the early 1920s, publishing peer-reviewed scholarship on African American history at a time when mainstream academic journals excluded such research. Woodson also established Associated Publishers in 1920 as a Black-owned press to publish books on African American subjects that commercial publishers would not take. Together these institutions created an independent scholarly infrastructure for Black studies.