Carter G. Woodson Founds Association for Study of Negro Life and History

Carter G. Woodson, the second Black American to earn a PhD from Harvard, founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History on September 9, 1915, and began publishing the Journal of Negro History in 1916. Woodson argued that Black history had been deliberately omitted from American education and that this erasure was a tool of oppression. He established 'Negro History Week' in 1926 (expanded to Black History Month in 1976). His scholarship systematically recovered Black historical contributions that white academic history had ignored or distorted.