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Title: “Father” of Black history Carter Woodson Author: Woodson, C.[arter] G. Place: Publisher: Date: 1928 Description: Typed form Letter Signed as Director, The Journal of Negro History, Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, Washington, D.C., Feb. 3, 1928. 1 pg. To Marion Deane, Hampton Institute, Virginia A membership appeal during Negro History week – Woodson’s personal brainchild, later to evolve into the current national observance of Black History Month – to join the Association and subscribe to the Journal that he founded and edited. “We need your close cooperation and that of every person who can be made to appreciate the value of the printed record in the uplift of an oppressed people…The work of scientifically presenting the case of the Negro to the world is as important as any other undertaking in behalf of the Negro. Many thinking people are saying that this is the most important effort of its kind started since Emancipation…to save the record of the Negro that the race may not become a negligible factor in the thought of the world…” Called the “Father of Black history”, Woodson, the son of former slaves who received a Ph.D. in History at Harvard, founded the renowned quarterly Journal of Negro History in 1916. By the time of his death in 1950, It had evolved into a more informal monthly periodical that featured less academic essays and a wider range of news notes and book reviews of general interest to aficionados of Black culture. This represented Woodson’s personal triumph in bringing Black history out of the shadows to the forefront of American scholarly interest during the Civil Rights era. Lot Amendments Condition: Very good. Item number: 276168