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Robert Woodson

American civil rights activist (born 1937)

For the American botanist, see Robert Everard Woodson. For the Canadian football defensive back, see Robert Woodson (Canadian football).

Robert Leon Woodson Sr.^[1] (born April 8, 1937) is an American civil rights activist, community development leader, author, and founder and president of the Woodson Center, a non-profit research and demonstration organization that supports neighborhood-based initiatives to revitalize low-income communities.^[2]

In February 2020, Woodson launched the center's 1776 Unites campaign to counter The 1619 Project.

Early life, family, and education

Woodson was born in Philadelphia. His father died soon after and Woodson and his four siblings were raised by his mother. In 1954 he dropped out of high school to join the Air Force. While in the Air Force he passed the GED tests. After leaving the Air Force he went on to graduate from Cheyney University in 1962 with a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and then from the University of Pennsylvania in 1965 with a Mas

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Early Years

Carter Godwin Woodson was born in New Canton in Buckingham County on December 19, 1875. His parents, James Henry Woodson of Fluvanna County and Anne Eliza Riddle Woodson of Buckingham County, had been enslaved. Woodson grew up in Virginia, working as a farm laborer and attending school in a one-room schoolhouse, where he was taught by his uncles. In 1892 he moved to West Virginia, and, following his older brothers, worked as a coal miner in Fayette County for better wages than he had received for agricultural work.

In 1895, Woodson enrolled in segregated Douglass High School in Huntington, West Virginia, and earned his high school diploma in 1897 after completing four years of course work in two years. In 1903 he received a bachelor’s degree from Berea College, an integrated school in Kentucky founded by abolitionists. For the next four years he taught in the Philippines. He then earned a master’s degree in European history from the University of Chicago (1908) and a doctorate from Harvard University (1912). Woodson was the second African American, after

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CARTER G. WOODSON QUICK FACTS

Dr. Carter G. Woodson was an American historian who first opened the long-neglected field of African and African American History to scholars and popularized the field in schools and colleges across the United States. In 1912, he earned his PhD in history from Harvard University, becoming the second African American to do so. In 1915, he established the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, Inc. and in 1926, he created "Negro History Week," which later became "Black History Month." Due to these efforts, he came to be known as the “Father of Black History.”

PLACE OF BIRTH: New Canton, Buckingham County, Virginia

DATE OF BIRTH: December 19, 1875

PLACE OF DEATH: His office-home in Washington, D.C.

DATE OF DEATH: April 3, 1950

PLACE OF BURIAL: Suitland, MD

CEMETERY NAME: Lincoln Memorial Cemetery

EDUCATION: Bachelor's degree from Berea College in 1903; Bachelor's and Master's degrees from University of Chicago in 1908; PhD in History from Harvard University in 1912

His Early Life and Quest for Knowledge

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