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1968-02-15 Newsletter, Fort Madison Branch of the NAACP Page 2

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Though many people have heard of or know of Dr. W. E. B. DuBois and his special contribution to the area of the Negro in history. He should be especially known by those who are familiar with the history and origin of the National Association For the Advancement of Colored People. Too few of us, however, know much about Dr. Carter G. Woodson, who, along with Dr. DuBois persisted in delving into the history of Africa, and consequently, of those Americans of African descent. Carter Woodson was born in 1875 in Buckingham County, Virginia, one of nine children. His family being very poor, he was unable to attend the school in the district on a regular basis. Largely self-educated, until the age of 17, when he moved to West Virginia with a brother, he worked as a miner and in 1895 was able to enter Douglass High School. Having been inspired by an instructor, William T. McKinney, he finished the course in two years and then entered Berea College in Kentucky. Upon graduation, ( a two year course ) , he taught and spent his summers studying at the University of Chicago. From there, he received hi Bachelor of Arts and Master's degrees. In 1912, he fulfilled the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in History at Harvard University. Dr. Woodson taught in the school system of Washington for ten years and then went on to hold administrative posts at Howard University and the West Virginia Collegiate Institute. It was after this that he decided the confines of the classroom restricted him from exploiting his specialty as was implied in his Doctorate  degree. Year after year, he worked very hard on a project which would end in a new American History which would show that the Negro did have a history and definitely was a part of the history of America. "The importance of Dr. Woodson's work is better appreciated when we reflect that the literature of the race problem abounds mainly in propoganda based upon opinion and argumentation. The importance of collecting and correlating exact and accurate material has not yet received the recognition which it deserves. We are so anxious to solve the race problem, that we do not take time to study it." ...The largest measure of our admiration is due to the Negro who can divest himself of momentary passion and prejudice, and with self-detachment, devote his powers to searching out and sifting the historical facts growing out of race relationship and present them to the world, just as they are, in their untampered integrity."* "Happily, Dr. Woodson lived long enough to witness the feeble beginnings of a New American History that accepted his ideas and premises; but his wildest dreams - and he did dream - could not have visualized what would happen in this area in the 16 years following his death." * Dr. Woodson died in April of 1950 and it is largely because of his persistence that we have reached this stage in the area of the Negro in our history.

* - taken from the introduction to THE NEGRO IN OUR HISTORY, by Carter G. Woodson as written by Kelly Miller, 7th edition

* - taken from  THE NEW AMERICAN HISTORY, Negro Digest, February, 1967, written by John Hope Franklin.

"Some day history may record with amazement that  a man's whole life was once determined by the color of his skin."
-Rice, I Came Out of the Eighteenth Century 

FACTS IN NEGRO HISTORY 

*The oldest carvings and drawings which have been discovered were executed by the Negro peoples over 15,000 years ago in Southern France, Northern Spain, Northern Spain, Palestine, South Africa, and Indian. The drawings are one rocks, the carvings on bone; basalt and ivory.

* Elam, a mighty Negro civilization of Persia, flourished about 2900 B.C. and is perhaps older than Egypt of Ethiopa. One of its later Negro Kings, Kudur Nakunta, conquered Chaldea and Babylon and brought back to his capitol, Susa,

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-2- Though many people have heard of or know of Dr. W. E. B. DuBois and his special contribution to the area of the Negro in history. He should be especially known by those who are familiar with the history and origin of the National Association For the Advancement of Colored People. Too few of us, however, know much about Dr. Carter G. Woodson, who, along with Dr. DuBois persisted in delving into the history of Africa, and consequently, of those Americans of African descent. Carter Woodson was born in 1875 in Buckingham County, Virginia, one of nine children. His family being very poor, he was unable to attend the school in the district on a regular basis. Largely self-educated, until the age of 17, when he moved to West Virginia with a brother, he worked as a miner and in 1895 was able to enter Douglass High School. Having been inspired by an instructor, William T. McKinney, he finished the course in two years and then entered Berea College in Kentucky. Upon graduation, ( a two year course ) , he taught and spent his summers studying at the University of Chicago. From there, he received hi Bachelor of Arts and Master's degrees. In 1912, he fulfilled the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in History at Harvard University. Dr. Woodson taught in the school system of Washington for ten years and then went on to hold administrative posts at Howard University and the West Virginia Collegiate Institute. It was after this that he decided the confines of the classroom restricted him from exploiting his specialty as was implied in his Doctorate degree. Year after year, he worked very hard on a project which would end in a new American History which would show that the Negro did have a history and definitely was a part of the history of America. "The importance of Dr. Woodson's work is better appreciated when we reflect that the literature of the race problem abounds mainly in propoganda based upon opinion and argumentation. The importance of collecting and correlating exact and accurate material has not yet received the recognition which it deserves. We are so anxious to solve the race problem, that we do not take time to study it." ...The largest measure of our admiration is due to the Negro who can divest himself of momentary passion and prejudice, and with self-detachment, devote his powers to searching out and sifting the historical facts growing out of race relationship and present them to the world, just as they are, in their untampered integrity."* "Happily, Dr. Woodson lived long enough to witness the feeble beginnings of a New American History that accepted his ideas and premises; but his wildest dreams - and he did dream - could not have visualized what would happen in this area in the 16 years following his death." * Dr. Woodson died in April of 1950 and it is largely because of his persistence that we have reached this stage in the area of the Negro in our history. * - taken from the introduction to THE NEGRO IN OUR HISTORY, by Carter G. Woodson as written by Kelly Miller, 7th edition * - taken from THE NEW AMERICAN HISTORY, Negro Digest, February, 1967, written by John Hope Franklin. "Some day history may record with amazement that a man's whole life was once determined by the color of his skin." -Rice, I Came Out of the Eighteenth Century FACTS IN NEGRO HISTORY *The oldest carvings and drawings which have been discovered were executed by the Negro peoples over 15,000 years ago in Southern France, Northern Spain, Northern Spain, Palestine, South Africa, and Indian. The drawings are one rocks, the carvings on bone; basalt and ivory. * Elam, a mighty Negro civilization of Persia, flourished about 2900 B.C. and is perhaps older than Egypt of Ethiopa. One of its later Negro Kings, Kudur Nakunta, conquered Chaldea and Babylon and brought back to his capitol, Susa,