Carter G. Woodson Expands Negro History Week Nationally

Throughout the 1930s, Carter G. Woodson and his Association for the Study of Negro Life and History expanded Negro History Week — founded in 1926 — into a nationally observed educational event observed in schools, churches, and community organizations across the country. Woodson also published "The Mis-Education of the Negro" in 1933, a foundational critique of how Black Americans were educated out of their own history.