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Woodson in Images and Film
Carter G. Woodson focused his energy and efforts on being an educator, historian and activist, and was rarely photographed over the course of his life. Some of the few images that do exist are shared here.
Quotes from Woodson
As a visionary and the preeminent scholar of African American history, Carter G. Woodson wrote extensively about Black life and history. He founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, started the academic publication The Journal of Negro History in 1916 and The Negro History Bulletin in 1937. In 1921, he also founded the Associated Publishers, Inc., a publishing company that took on works that other companies would not, such as the writings of Black scholars and women on African American and African Diaspora history.
- "In the long run, there is not much discrimination against superior talent." ~ Negro Makers of History, 1928, p. 187
- “No man knows what he can do until he tries.” ~ The Mis-Education of the Negro, 1933, p. 187
- “The mere imparting of information is not education.” ~ The Mis-Education of the Negro, 1933, p. xii.
- “Real education means to inspire people to live more abundantly, to learn to begin with life as they find it and make it better” ~ The Mis-Education of the Negro, 1933, p. 29
- “Let us banish fear. We have been in this mental state for three centuries. I am a radical. I am ready to act, if I can find brave men to help me.” ~ personal correspondence, response to Archibald Grimke over disagreements with the NAACP, March 18, 1915
- “If a race has no history, it has no worth-while tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated … In such a millennium the achievements of the Negro properly set forth will crown him as a factor in early human progress and a maker of civilization … Must we let this generation continue ignorant of these eloquent facts? … Let truth destroy the dividing prejudices of nationality and teach universal love without distinction of race, merit or rank.” ~ NEGRO HISTORY WEEK, 1926
- “From my father. … I learned better. … He had been a field slave and could neither read nor write, but he proved to be the greatest factor in my education. … This former slave, an illiterate man, taught me that you do not have to wait until you die to think of losing your soul. He insisted that when you learn to accept insult, to compromise on principle, to mislead your people, you have lost your soul.” ~ And the Negro Loses His Soul, Chicago Defender, June 25, 1932, p. 14
His Publications
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