Carter G. Woodson
Carter Godwin Woodson (December 19, 1875 – April 3, 1950) was an African-American historian. Woodson was one of the first scholars to study African-American history. He started the Journal of Negro History.
Woodson was born to James and Eliza Riddle Woodson in Buckingham County, Virginia. He was a famous African-American historian, journalist, author, and founder of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History.
Carter G. Woodson Media
Portrait of Woodson from West Virginia Collegiate Institute's El Ojo yearbook picture (1923)
A statue of Woodson at Carter G Woodson Memorial Park in the Shaw neighborhood of Washington, D.C. sculpted by Ray Kaskey.
Carter Woodson biographical cartoon by Charles Alston, 1943
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