#The Home of Carter G. Woodson

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In 1922, Carter G. Woodson, known as “the father of Black history,” bought the home at 1538 Ninth Street NW for $8,000.Credit...Scurlock Studio Records, Archives Center, National Museum of American History

In 1922, Carter G. Woodson, known as “the father of Black history,” bought the home at 1538 Ninth Street NW for $8,000. The home served as the headquarters for the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (which is now known as the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, or A.S.A.L.H.).

It was where he ran the Associated Publishers, the publishing house focused on African American culture and history at a time when many other publishers wouldn’t accept works on the topic. It’s where The Journal of Negro History and The Negro History Bulletin were based, and it’s where he initiated the first Negro History Week — the precursor to Black History Month — in 1926.

“If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated,” Dr. Woodson famously wrote.

The site, owned by the National Park Service, is being restored and will likely be open to visitors starting this fall, a spokesperson for the Park Service said.

“If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated,” Dr. Woodson famously wrote.Credit...Kenny Holston/The New York Times

Though Dr. Woodson was the kind of neighbor who doted on children playing on the street and his stoop, even as other adults told them to behave, 1538 Ninth Street NW was more about his life’s work than serving as a traditional residence. It became known as Dr. Woodson’s “office home,” as Willie Leanna Miles, who was a managing director of the Associated Publishers, put it in her 1991 article “Dr. Carter Godwin Woodson as I Recall Him, 1943-1950.” The article was published in The Journal of Negro History, which was founded by Dr. Woodson and is still running as The Journal of African American History today.

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Jean-Baptiste Pointe DuSable was born in Saint-Domingue, Haiti (French colony) during the Haitian Revolution. At some point he settled in the part of North America that is now known as the city of Chicago and was described in historical documents as "a handsome negro" He married a Native American woman, Kitiwaha, and they had two children. In 1779, during the American Revolutionary War, he was arrested by the British on suspicion of being an American Patriot sympathizer. In the early 1780s he worked for the British lieutenant-governor of Michilimackinac on an estate at what is now the city of St. Clair, Michigan north of Detroit. In the late 1700's, Jean-Baptiste was the first person to establish an extensive and prosperous trading settlement in what would become the city of Chicago. Historic documents confirm that his property was right at the mouth of the Chicago River. Many people, however, believe that John Kinzie (a white trader) and his family were the first to settle in the area that is now known as Chicago, and it is true that the Kinzie family were Chicago's first "permanent" European settlers. But the truth is that the Kinzie family purchased their property from a French trader who had purchased it from Jean-Baptiste. He died in August 1818, and because he was a Black man, many people tried to white wash the story of Chicago's founding. But in 1912, after the Great Migration, a plaque commemorating Jean-Baptiste appeared in downtown Chicago on the site of his former home. Later in 1913, a white historian named Dr. Milo Milton Quaife also recognized Jean-Baptiste as the founder of Chicago. And as the years went by, more and more Black notables such as Carter G. Woodson and Langston Hughes began to include Jean-Baptiste in their writings as "the brownskin pioneer who founded the Windy City." In 2009, a bronze bust of Jean-Baptiste was designed and placed in Pioneer Square in Chicago along the Magnificent Mile. There is also a popular museum in Chicago named after him called the DuSable Museum of African American History.

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February is Black History Month, a time dedicated to honoring and celebrating the essential contributions of Black people in the story of America. National and local events and online celebrations will take place throughout the month to focus attention on Black people's achievements and history. 

Since 1976, the US has marked the contributions of Black people and celebrated the history and culture of the Black experience in America every February. Read on to learn more about Black History Month and the ways in which you can participate.

The story of Black History Month

Born as a sharecropper in 1875, Carter G. Woodson went on to become a teacher and the second African American to earn a doctorate from Harvard. He founded the Association for the Study of African American Life and History in 1915 and eventually became known as the "father of Black history."

On Feb. 7, 1926, Woodson announced the creation of "Negro History Week" to encourage and expand the teaching of Black history in schools. He selected February because the month marks the birthday of the two most famous abolitionists of the time -- Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln. Feb. 1 is also National Freedom Day, a celebration of the ratification of the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery in the US.

By the 1940s, schools in Woodson's home state of West Virginia had begun expanding the celebration to a month, and by the 1960s, demands for proper Black history education spread across the country. Kent State's Black United Students proposed the idea of a Black History month in 1969 and celebrated the first event in February 1970. President Gerald Ford officially recognized Black History Month in 1976 during the US bicentennial. 

The excellent history site BlackPast has a full biography of Carter Woodson and the origins of Black History Month. 

Visit a Black or African American history museum

Almost every state in the US has a Black history museum or African American heritage site. The country's first and oldest is the Hampton University Museum in Hampton, Virginia. Like many other museums, it offers a virtual tour and online exhibits.

One of the most famous of these museums is the National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. The museum, which is located steps away from where Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, allows you to sit with Rosa Parks on the bus that inspired the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955, among many other powerful exhibits.

African-American heritage sites include historic parks and other significant locations and monuments in Black history. Some of the most popular include Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas, the epicenter of US school desegregation. You could also consider visiting the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historical Park in Atlanta.

If there's no museum or heritage site near you, keep an eye out for the Black History Mobile Museum, which traverses the country all month and through the summer. Throughout February you can find the mobile museum in several states, starting in New Jersey on Feb. 1 and making its way through 12 other states. See the full list of 2023 tour dates here. 

Learn about Black music history by listening online

Marley Marl and Mr. Magic were superstar rap DJs for WBLS FM in the 1980s. Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images

From spirituals and blues to the rise of jazz, R&B and hip hop, Black music has been entwined with American culture for centuries. 

There are lots of ways to learn about and experience the power of Black American music online. One of the most extensive and free resources is the Black Music History Library, created by Jenzia Burgos. The compendium includes an array of Black music sources, with links to music samples, full recordings and interviews, as well as books and articles.

Another remarkable Black music website is the #312 Soul project. Originally launched as a month-long series on Chicago's Black music from 1955 to 1990, the site publishes original stories from Chicago residents about their personal experiences creating and enjoying Black music.

For snapshots of Black music between 1982 and 1999, check out the Hip Hop Radio Archive, a collection of radio show recordings from commercial, college and independent hip-hop stations. Of particular note are classic radio shows from New York City's WBLS, featuring Rap Attack with Marley Marl and Mr. Magic.

Online streaming music services also curate collections for Black History Month -- Spotify has an extensive collection of Black music in its Black History is Now collection. Tidal and Amazon Music also include special Black music collections on their services.

Support Black-owned businesses and restaurants

Becoming a customer of local Black businesses helps protect livelihoods and supports Black entrepreneurs.

If you aren't sure which businesses in your area are owned and operated by your Black neighbors, several resources can help. Start off by learning how to find Black-owned restaurants where you live. 

Several directories have now been created to highlight and promote Black businesses. Official Black Wall Street is one of the original services that list businesses owned by members of the Black community.

Support Black Owned uses a simple search tool to help you find Black businesses, Shop Black Owned is an open-source tool operating in eight US cities, and EatOkra specifically helps people find Black-owned restaurants. Also, We Buy Black offers an online marketplace for Black businesses.

The online boutique Etsy highlights Black-owned vendors on its website -- many of these shop owners are women selling jewelry and unique art pieces. And if you're searching for make-up or hair products, check CNET's own list of Black-owned beauty brands.

Donate to Black organizations and charities

Donating money to a charity is an important way to support a movement or group, and your monetary contribution can help fund programs and pay for legal costs and salaries that keep an organization afloat. Your employer may agree to match employee donations, which would double the size of your contribution -- ask your HR department.

Nonprofit organizations require reliable, year-round funding to do their work. Rather than a lump sum, consider a monthly donation. Even if the amount seems small, your donation combined with others can help provide a steady stream of funds that allows programs to operate.

Here are some non-profit organizations advancing Black rights and equal justice and supporting Black youth:

Black Lives Matter 

NAACP 

Thurgood Marshall College Fund 

Color of Change 

Black Girls Code 

The Black Youth Project

Attend local Black History Month events

Many cities, schools, and local organizations will host events celebrating Black History Month in February 2022. Check your local newspaper or city website to see what events are happening in your area -- for example, Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Baltimore and Louisville, Kentucky, have extensive events planned this month.

If you can't find anything in your area or don't want to attend events in person, the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, is offering a handful of online Black History Month events throughout February.

Watch Black history documentaries and movies

Black is King is an elaborately staged musical directed, written and produced by Beyoncé. Disney

You can find movies and documentaries exploring the Black experience right now on Netflix, Disney Plus and other streaming services. 

The CNET staff has compiled a selection of feature films and documentaries for Black History Month 2023, including the wonderful Summer of Soul and Black is King. Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Hulu all have special collections of streaming movies and shows for Black History Month.

PBS also offers several free video documentary collections, which include smaller chunks of Black history for all ages. The collections include subjects like the Freedom Riders, the 1963 March on Washington and the Rise and Fall of Jim Crow.

Find Black authors and stories for yourself and your children

There are so many great books written by Black authors you should read -- not only during Black History Month but all year round. So, where do we start? Try your local library. Many will have Black History Month collections for both adults and kids.

Libraries will also often have Black History Month book recommendations by age. The San Diego Public Library, the Detroit Public Library and DC Public Library, for example, have programs and collections to browse for adults and children.

Next, try Black booksellers. The Noname Book Club, dedicated to amplifying diverse voices, has compiled a list of Black-owned bookshops across the US. The club also highlights two books a month by writers of color.

Dive deeper into Black history with online resources

The National Archives includes many primary resources from Black history in America. Rowland Sherman/National Archives

You can find remarkable Black history collections on government, educational and media sites. One of the best is the aforementioned BlackPast, which hosts a large collection of primary documents from African American history, dating back to 1724.

The National Archives also hosts a large collection of records, photos, news articles and videos documenting Black heritage in America. The expansive National Museum of African American History & Culture's Black History Month collection is likewise full of unique articles, videos and learning materials.

The New York Times' 1619 Project tracks the history of Black Americans from the first arrival of enslaved people in Virginia. The Pulitzer Center hosts the full issue of The 1619 Project as a PDF file on its 1619 Education site, which also offers reading guides, activity lessons and reporting related to the project.

You can buy The 1619 Project and the children's picture book version -- The 1619 Project: Born on the Water -- as printed books.

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For 13 years… February 1, 2011, 365 days to 366 days in a year, CARTER™️ Magazine expand the vision Dr. Carter G. Woodson began in 1926, celebrating Black History all year round.

We set out with a pledge allegiance to never forget those taken from their homes and sold by their own… For those who traveled alone, didn’t make it and thrown… For those who educate their own, because they were left to be unknown… Your fight and struggle for my rights will never be forgotten; instead, it will be etched in stone. We pledge allegiance to our ancestors as the flag is held high… You will never be forgotten, your history will be told, followed with questions of WHY?

CARTER™️ Magazine where history and hip-hop meet. The evolution of revolution. 13 years and counting…

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And countless others, as it takes a village.

“Spread love is the Brooklyn way.” - B.I.G.

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Addison Scurlock (June 19, 1883 - December 16, 1964) photographer, was born to attorney George Clay Scurlock and wife Nannie in Fayetteville, North Carolina. His family moved to DC where he began an apprenticeship under Moses P. Rice. He learned the basics of photographic portraiture and laboratory work. He founded his photography business in his parents’ home. He won a photography gold medal at the Jamestown Exposition.

In 1911, he opened the Scurlock Photographic Studio at 900 U Street in the heart of what was Black Washington’s theater district. He established himself as the preeminent African American photographer in the nation’s capital and was hired by government agencies.

He photographed nationally prominent African Americans such as Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, Mary McLeod Bethune, Archie Alexander, Billy Eckstine, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Lillian Evanti, and Sterling Brown. Prominent Black Washingtonians such as Charles Drew and Duke Ellington were captured in his lens. He took the image of Marian Anderson singing at the Lincoln Memorial. He became the photographer of prominent white Americans such as President Calvin Coolidge and First Lady Mamie Eisenhower. Carter G. Woodson sent his portraits of prominent African American leaders in the packets he mailed to schools across the nation.

He was the first photographer to document the importance of Black life in DC. His photographs included businesses such as the Underdown Delicatessen, religious institutions such as the Lincoln Temple Church, summer events at nearby Highland Beach, Maryland, and sporting events at Howard University.

His family was involved in his business. His wife, Mamie Estelle, served as the studio’s business manager. He trained his sons to shoot pictures using his special style which became known as the “Scurlock look.”

His studio was awarded a citation by the U Street Association as the oldest business. He was the official photographer for Howard University until his death.

His son Robert ran the studio until he died in 1994. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

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CARTER G. WOODSON:

THE ULTIMATE BLACK NEGRO HISTORIAN. In 1915, Carter G. Woodson traveled to Chicago from his home in Washington, D.C. to take part in a national celebration of the 50th anniversary of emancipation. He had earned his bachelor’s and master’s degree at the University of Chicago, and still had many friends there. As he joined the thousands of Black Americans overflowing from the Coliseum, which…

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[ad_1] The origins of Black Historical past Month might be traced again practically 100 years to an unassuming, three-story brick rowhouse in Washington.In 1922, Carter G. Woodson, generally known as “the daddy of Black historical past,” purchased the house at 1538 Ninth Avenue for $8,000. The house served because the headquarters for the Affiliation for the Research of Negro Life and Historical past (which is now generally known as the Affiliation for the Research of African American Life and Historical past, or A.S.A.L.H.). It was the place he ran the Related Publishers, the publishing home centered on African American tradition and historical past at a time when many different publishers wouldn’t settle for works on the subject. It’s the place The Journal of Negro Historical past and The Negro Historical past Bulletin had been based mostly, and it’s the place he initiated the primary Negro Historical past Week — the precursor to Black Historical past Month — in 1926.“If a race has no historical past, if it has no worthwhile custom, it turns into a negligible issue within the considered the world, and it stands at risk of being exterminated,” Dr. Woodson famously wrote.The location, owned by the Nationwide Park Service, is being restored and can doubtless be open to guests beginning this fall, a spokesperson for the Park Service stated.Although Dr. Woodson was the type of neighbor who doted on kids taking part in on the road and his stoop, at the same time as different adults instructed them to behave, 1538 Ninth Avenue was extra about his life’s work than serving as a standard residence. It turned generally known as Dr. Woodson’s “workplace dwelling,” as Willie Leanna Miles, who was a managing director of the Related Publishers, put it in her 1991 article “Dr. Carter Godwin Woodson as I Recall Him, 1943-1950.” The article was printed in The Journal of Negro Historical past, which was based by Dr. Woodson and remains to be working as The Journal of African American Historical past at present.Over time, the workplace dwelling turned an vital nexus level for the Black historical past motion, and stepping via its doorways was a proper of passage for a lot of Black students, writers and activists to hunt Dr. Woodson’s mentorship, work there or a minimum of go via. Mary McLeod Bethune, Lorenzo J. Greene, Lawrence Dunbar Reddick, John Hope Franklin, Langston Hughes and lots of extra all frolicked within the dwelling. Even after Dr. Woodson died in his bed room on the third flooring in 1950, A.S.A.L.H. remained based mostly there till 1971.In 1976, the identical 12 months that Negro Historical past Week formally grew into Black Historical past Month, the workplace dwelling was designated as a Nationwide Historic Landmark. Because the years went on, it fell into disrepair. In 2005, the Nationwide Park Service bought it together with two neighboring homes for $1.3 million, and is now engaged on restoring the constructing and making a welcome heart. Neighborhood RootsBorn in 1875, Dr. Woodson, who was a descendant of slavery, labored as a coal miner, a instructor and a faculty principal. Finally, he turned the second African American to earn a Ph.D. at Harvard — the primary being W.E.B. DuBois.When Dr. Woodson purchased the rowhouse in Washington, he “needed his group to have a nationwide stature, and that led him to the nation’s capital,” stated Vincent Vaise, one of many planning leads for the Park Service’s restoration mission.Shaw, the place the workplace house is located, was on the time a predominantly Black neighborhood — “just like the Harlem of Washington, D.C.,” Mr. Vaise stated. It was dwelling to Howard College, “Black Broadway,” in addition to a Black YWCA, the place Dr. Woodson would typically have lunch. In more moderen years, Shaw has been a hot-spot for stylish retailers and white millennial residents. The median dwelling sale worth in Shaw and Logan Circle, the adjoining neighborhood, for December was practically $750,000, in line with Redfin.

Ella McCall Haygan sharply remembers what Shaw was like throughout Dr. Woodson’s time. Ms. Haygan, a medical social employee who's now in her 80s, lived down the road from the workplace dwelling, when it was a thriving mental and cultural hub for Black minds. Shaw “was like a village,” Ms. Haygan stated. “Everybody knew everybody.”Dr. Woodson was identified among the many kids primarily for handing out treats. “The sweet retailer was proper by his home, and it was Black owned,” Ms. Haygan stated. “Woodson would purchase sweet and provides it to us.”“He was superb, however we didn’t notice this till we obtained in elementary faculty, and they might have Black historical past week in February,” stated Ms. Haygan. “A few of the children that lived on the block, we had been in the identical grade. We stated, ‘That’s Mr. Woodson?!’ And that’s once we actually discovered precisely who he was.”Ms. Haygan and the opposite children would typically get scolded by different adults for sitting on Dr. Woodson’s steps. However she recalled onetime she went inside, and the picture of all the assorted books and printed supplies made an imprint on her. “Once you went in his home, he had it arrange, I bear in mind, with the books and the pamphlets and stuff that he created. They was laying on the counter,” she stated. “It didn’t register on the time, however in a while it did. There was at all times a burning need for me to get an training.”She got here to understand his presence in her neighborhood much more deeply. “You'll suppose — he’s been to Harvard and all that stuff — that he could be someplace else. However he wasn’t. He was proper there.‘A Coaching Floor’Right this moment, an indication on the house’s facade reads “Affiliation For Research of Negro Life and Historical past, Inc.” and “Related Publishers, Inc.” The inside remains to be unfurnished, however the unique spiral staircase has been restored and put in. Mr. Vaise identified that the upper up you go within the constructing, the extra intimate the areas get. The primary flooring, the place the secretaries labored, was very public, open to prospects and guests. It was additionally “the place order and delivery, processing of The Negro Historical past Bulletin and The Journal of Negro Historical past and different miscellaneous clerical work was achieved,” Ms. Miles wrote in her article.“One by no means obtained the concept the boss would ask you to do something that he wouldn't do himself,” wrote the poet Langston Hughes in a 1950 article within the Negro Historical past Bulletin. Hughes, who labored there within the mid-Twenties, wrote that his job “was to open the workplace within the mornings, preserve it clear, wrap and mail books, help in answering the mail, learn proofs, financial institution the furnace at evening when Dr. Woodson was away.” He additionally recalled one occasion of sneakily taking part in playing cards within the first-floor delivery room with another colleagues, when Dr. Woodson got here dwelling sooner than anticipated from a visit. “No one obtained fired. As an alternative he requested our presence in his research the place he gave us an extended and really severe discuss on our duties to our work, to historical past, and to the Negro race,” Hughes wrote of the incident.Pero G. Dagbovie, a former editor of The Journal of African American Historical past and a distinguished professor of historical past at Michigan State College, stated that “some folks thought of the house to be type of like a coaching floor for future historians and students of the Black expertise.” At one level, Dr. Woodson hosted an exhibition of artwork from Benin within the workplace dwelling, Dr. Dagbovie identified. “He at all times needed folks to return and use the useful resource that was obtainable,” he stated.The second flooring housed Dr. Woodson’s research and archives, which at the moment are partly held by the Library of Congress. This flooring can be the place he would mentor the following technology of Black historians and students.

“My work house task was in Dr. Woodson’s library, 2nd flooring entrance, reverse the staircase resulting in the third flooring. This allowed me a possibility to listen to conversations from his workplace. He seldom missed telling a customer in regards to the truth he was as soon as a coal miner and as soon as earned a residing as a rubbish collector,” Ms. Miles, the managing director of the Related Publishers, wrote.The third and most personal flooring is the place Dr. Woodson slept. It’s additionally the place he died of a coronary heart assault in 1950. However his influence continued to develop posthumously — Negro Historical past Week turned Black Historical past Month, A.S.A.L.H. remains to be energetic and lots of of Dr. Woodson’s mentors went on to develop into distinguished students in their very own proper.For Ms. Haygan, as life carried on, Dr. Woodson was at all times at the back of her thoughts. She was homeless at one level and needed to drop out of college, however her recollections of Dr. Woodson made her need to persevere and ultimately end her training. She obtained her grasp's diploma in social work from the Catholic College of America in 1977. “I considered Dr. Woodson,” Ms. Haygan stated. “I considered him, and I stated, ‘Dr. Woodson, I did it.’” [ad_2] Supply hyperlink

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Arts Annual 2022 at Creative Pinellas- Cora Marshall

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Cora Marshall, born in Washington, DC, is an artist and arts educator. She received her B.F.A. from Howard University, Master of Science in Education from Bank Street College of Education with Parsons School of Design, and her doctorate in art from New York University. Dr. Marshall, Professor of Art Emeritus, served as chairperson of the Department of Art at Central Connecticut State University from 2006-2012.

Marshall has exhibited both internationally and nationally including National Conference of Artists: Kumasi, Ghana; US Embassy, Khartoum, Sudan; A.I.R. Gallery NYC; Skylight Restoration Gallery in Brooklyn; Hammonds House Gallery in Atlanta; Pittsburgh Center for the Arts; Brown University, RI, Dr. Carter G. Woodson African American Museum; the Morean Art Center, Studio@620, Gallerie 909, Creative Pinellas Gallery, and many other venues. She is the recipient of numerous awards and grants, including the ACT II 2019 grant from Pinellas Community Foundation. She also received the Lifetime Contribution to the Arts Award (2014) from the Greater New Britain Arts Alliance, CT.

Through art, Cora Marshall explores ideas of self, home, and community. Her work is almost always figurative and often mixed media. She is intrigued with layers, textures, and the spiritual side of art. As an artist and art educator for over many years, the impulse to create is part of who she is. It centers her and informs how she moves through the world. Living at the water’s edge on Boca Ciega Bay restores her soul daily and provides a tranquil rhythm in her life that allows her to touch, reflect, and tap into her creative self.

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Black History Month: Trajectory of the history!

October marks Black History Month, the annual commemoration of the history, achievements and contributions of black people in the UK. For the whole month until October 31, events celebrating African and Caribbean cultures and histories will take place around the UK. Events include an exhibition in the Bank of England, which explores the Bank's historical links with slavery. While the UK celebrates Black History month in October, in the US where commemorations originated it takes place throughout February. So, here is everything that needs to be known about Black History Month. Why is Black History Month necessary? People from African and Caribbean backgrounds have been a fundamental part of British history for centuries. However, campaigners believe their value and contribution to society are often overlooked, ignored and distorted. More recently, greater attention has been paid to the importance of the Windrush generation and the Black Lives Matter movement, especially since the death of George Floyd in May 2020. How Did it Originate? Carter G. Woodson Known as the "Father of Black History", Carter G Woodson was born in Virginia in 1875 and was the son of former slaves. Carter G Woodson worked tirelessly throughout his life to promote black history in schools, leaving an indelible legacy. The event got momentum in 1970, and since 1976 every US President officially designated February as Black History Month in the US. February was chosen in the US because it coincides with the births of former President Abraham Lincoln and Fedrick Douglass- who escaped slavery and became a key social activists. Both men played a significant role in helping to end slavery. How is Black History Month Celebrated? Celebration for the Black History Month The event is intended to recognise the contribution and achievements of those with African or Caribbean heritage. It's also an opportunity for people to learn more about the effects of racism and how to challenge negative stereotypes. Black History Month is also celebrated in the community in places such as museums, care homes and workplaces. A broad range of topics is covered, from Britain's colonial past to migration and music. Government funding is available to local organisations to help mark Black History Month in their area. Some of the UK's leading organisations include The Windrush Foundation, National Archives, and 100 Great Black Britons. When was it first Recognised? Black History Month It was first recognised in 1975. When Black History Month first started in the UK, there was a big focus on black American history. Over the time there has been more attention on black British history and key black figures from the UK, such as: - Walter Tull, the first black officer to command white troops in the British Army and one of English football's first black players. - Malorie Blackman, a bestselling author and the first black Children's Laureate. - Olive Morris, a social activist who co-founded groups such as the Organisation of Women of African and Asian Descent and the Brixton Black Women's Group - Dr Shirley Thompson, the first woman in Europe to conduct and compose a symphony within the last 40 years. - Lewis Hamilton, one of the most high profile competitors in Formula One and the only black driver. Quotations "My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together". Desmond Tutu "History has Shown us that courage can be contagious, and hope can take on a life of its own". Michelle Obama "We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society". Angela Davis Black History Month Read the full article

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One of the things that plagues the African/Black Consciousness for centuries now is the commoditisation of our identities and our place within this codified current reality! Erasure of our History, Cultural and Cosmologies have rendered many unable to find a grounding within themselves, others with a baseless shame of their heritage and others with a restless spirit of self-destruction. Not forgetting the constant pressure the ruling apparatus uses every few decades to further thwart growing unity and solidarity, one minute we are 'primitive savages', then 'negros', then 'coloured', then 'Black' and then now back to being 'People Of Colour'.....what these psychic games attempts to do (when we allow it) is shake up our psyche, causing us to act in self-destrictive ways. Whilst we can argue about how useful or not 'Black History Month' may be, we also have to realise the spirit in which it was ceeated and its ultimate mission; that by learning deeply about our own heritage we come to know much about our potential and grow more confident in self...so its not a question really of what has BHM achieved for us, but rather what have we done with it to further our own potential, grounded in our Knowledge of Self? Carter G Woodson, founder of what is now known as BHM, knew deeply the impact of the right Education on changing reality as he stated when this initiative was first set up... "This crusade is much more important than the anti-lynching movement, because there would be no lynching if it did not start in the schoolroom" — Carter G. Woodson Basically that no-one is born racist, they are trained to become so and likewise we say, no-one was born to be subservient to another's culture as like Nature, we were born free and must live and exert our boundless potential, like the microcosm of the Universe that we are. This is the Cosmology and understanding of our Ancestors, know it and live it well by studying it in detail on our HOME-STUDY COURSE today, the first systemic approach to African Spirituality as a Corpus of Knowledge and Practices transcending time and space. Available at the link below: www.ancestralvoices.co.uk/courses https://www.instagram.com/p/CZclsmStXY8/?utm_medium=tumblr

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National Parks Conservation Association: Celebrating the 'Book Man' of Washington, D.C. · National Parks Conservation Association

The pioneering educator Carter G. Woodson founded the precursor to Black History Month in 1926. Though temporarily closed for renovations, the Carter G. Woodson Home National Historic Site is scheduled to reopen later this year.

Decades ago, residents of Washington D.C.’s Shaw neighborhood would regularly see a man walking down 9th Street carrying books in his arms — so many books, they were sometimes piled high enough to obscure his face. Thus, the groundbreaking historian Carter G. Woodson, known nationally as the “Father of Black History,” also earned himself the local nickname of “Book Man.”

It is a fitting tribute to a scholar who devoted his life to learning and education, who changed cultural awareness by documenting and distributing information on African American history and achievements, who wrote or coauthored more than 20 books — and who lived in a home filled with stacks and stacks of reading material.

Originally from Virginia, Woodson moved to Washington, D.C., to study at the Library of Congress while he was completing his doctoral degree at Harvard University. He purchased the 9th Street home in 1915 and lived there from 1922 until his death in 1950, keeping not just his extensive personal library on the premises, but also the offices of two grassroots organizations he founded and their numerous books and publications as well.

In 2001, after the home had stood vacant for years, the National Trust for Historic Preservation placed it on its list of America’s Most Endangered Historic Places. Congress designated the building as a national park site in 2006, as well as the buildings on either side of the main residence, but all three structures needed extensive stabilization and restoration work.

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Carter G. Woodson Home National Historic Site in Washington, D.C. 

The Carter G. Woodson Home National Historic Site officially opened to the public in May 2017, then closed again for more extensive renovations. Fortunately, the home is scheduled to open again later this year.

When the home was reopened in 2017, it had very little in the way of furnishings or personal effects, and visitors weren’t able to see the Book Man’s actual books — many of which were donated to universities and other learning institutions decades ago. They were, however, able to get an authentic feel for how Woodson lived and worked.

The interior and exterior of the building were painstakingly renovated to resemble its appearance in Woodson’s time, including reconstructing the original façade brick by brick, rebuilding a circular staircase, and restoring original fireplaces and flooring.

Woodson, who was deeply professionally driven, reportedly joked that his property was not a home office, but an “office home.” Even empty, the house and rangers’ interpretation of it offer insight into Woodson’s strict character, his considerable professional accomplishments, and his connections to contemporaries he both taught and learned from, such as Mary McLeod Bethune, Nannie Helen Burroughs and Langston Hughes.

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every book i read in 2020

books i read for school are bolded, rereads are starred

paradise rot by jenny hval 

tin man by sarah winman

we were feminists once by andi zeisler

little weirds by jenny slate 

a girl is a half formed thing by eimear mcbride 

deaf republic by ilya kaminsky

reverie by ryan la sala 

the year of magical thinking by joan didion 

on beauty by zadie smith

dark and deepest red by anna-marie mclemore 

black dog of fate by peter balakian 

the elements of style by william strunk jr & eb white

tell the wolves i’m home by carol rifka brunt

long live the tribe of fatherless girls by t kira madden 

the fact of a body by alex marzano-lesnevich 

lovely war by julie berry 

foul is fair by hannah capin 

the king of crows by libba bray

the end we start from by megan hunter

uprooted by naomi novik 

the monster hypothesis by romily bernard 

the line becomes a river by francisco cantu

the queen by josh levin 

red hood by elana k. arnold 

the lying game by ruth ware 

bunny by mona awad

the last true poets of the sea by julia drake 

citizen by claudia rankine 

my year of rest and relaxation by ottessa moshfegh 

the vacationers by emma straub 

their eyes were watching god by zora neale hurston 

the virgin suicides by jeffrey eugenides

*dare me by megan abbott

the water cure by sophie mackintosh 

the chronology of water by lidia yuknavitch 

the subversive copyeditor by carol fisher saller 

*on earth we’re briefly gorgeous by ocean vuong 

how to do nothing by jenny odell 

the midnight lie by marie rutkoski 

future home of the living god by louise erdrich 

the nightingale by kristin hannah 

*a great and terrible beauty by libba bray

*rebel angels by libba bray 

the fountains of silence by ruta sepetys 

*the sweet far thing by libba bray 

the bluest eye by toni morrison 

the paper wasp by lauren acampora 

piecing me together by renee watson 

get a life, chloe brown by talia hibbert

you’ll miss me when i’m gone by rachel lynn solomon 

the widow of pale harbor by hester fox

passing by nella larsen

my dark vanessa by kate elizabeth russell 

kindred by octavia butler 

beach read by emily henry 

you should see me in a crown by leah johnson 

the guest list by lucy foley 

the magic toyshop by angela carter 

the southern book club’s guide to slaying vampires by grady hendrix 

catherine house by elisabeth thomas 

home before dark by riley sager 

take a hint, dani brown by talia hibbert 

what we lose by zinzi clemmons 

the burning girl by claire messud

godshot by chelsea bieker 

the thirteenth tale by diane setterfield

such a fun age by kiley reid

the party upstairs by lee conell 

my education by susan choi

the city we became by nk jemisin

the lightness by emily temple 

followers by megan angelo 

temporary by hilary leichter

the kingdom of back by marie lu 

the lady’s guide to celestial mechanics by olivia waite 

mexican gothic by silvia moreno-garcia 

the bloody chamber & other stories by angela carter 

burn our bodies down by rory power

dangerous alliance by jennieke cohen

i’m thinking of ending things by iain reid 

pizza girl by jean kyoung frazier

i’ll be gone in the dark by michelle mcnamara 

the ghost map by steven johnson

luster by raven leilani

blood water paint by joy mccullough 

death in her hands by ottessa moshfegh

cemetery boys by aiden thomas 

madame bovary by gustave flaubert 

exciting times by naoise dolan 

blood countess by lana popović

the hazel wood by melissa albert 

jane doe by victoria helen stone

problem child by victoria helen stone 

eight perfect murders by peter swanson

heart berries by terese marie mailhot 

the austen playbook by lucy parker 

take me apart by sara sligar 

salt slow by julia armfield

the vanishing half by brit bennett

the price of salt by patricia highsmith

the last by hanna jameson

the comeback by ella berman

horrid by katrina leno

the clique by lisi harrison 

another brooklyn by jacqueline woodson

the great believers by rebecca makkai

heartburn by nora ephron

spoiler alert by olivia dade 

memorial by bryan washington 

will my cat eat my eyeballs?: big questions from tiny mortals about death by caitlin doughty

the lying life of adults by elena ferrante 

plain bad heroines by emily m. danforth

days of distraction by alexandra chang 

*bunheads by sophie flack

what we don’t talk about when we talk about fat by aubrey gordon 

pet by akwaeke emezi 

know my name by chanel miller 

the glass hotel by emily st. john mandel 

leave the world behind by rumaan alam 

a certain hunger by chelsea g. summers 

because internet by gretchen mcculloch 

writers & lovers by lily king 

averno by louise glück 

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Carlos Simon's Troubled Water is a trombone concerto commissioned by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. It derives inspiration from the history of the Underground Railroad in the United States. The piece is inspired by the many stories, accounts, and experiences told by many enslaved people and abolitionists.

Michigan was one of the last states for enslaved persons to reach before getting to freedom in Canada. The Underground Railroad was a network of clandestine routes and safe houses established in the United States during the early- to mid-19th century. It was used by enslaved African Americans primarily to escape into free states and Canada. Detroit has an incredible amount of sites with historical significance to the Underground Railroad.

City of Detroit Historian Jamon Jordan (pictured above with composer Nkeiru Okoye) describes a collection of nine sites, listed below. We encourage you to visit the sites in conjunction with listening to Simon's piece to learn more about Detroit's important role in this history. A Google Map of all site locations is available here.

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1) Former Detroit Jail Site - The Blackburn Uprising of 1833 Corner of Gratiot Avenue and Farmer Street

Husband and wife, Thornton and Lucie Blackburn escaped from slavery in Louisville, KY in 1831. They came to Detroit. In 1833, slave catchers came to Detroit and with assistance from the sheriff, apprehended the Blackburns and detained them in the jail until they could be transported via boat to Ohio, and then by wagon to Louisville. Two women came to visit Lucie Blackburn and one of them switched clothes with her and stayed in the jail cell while Lucie was taken to Canada. The next day, a crowd of 400 people gathered outside of the jail and demanded the release of Thornton Blackburn. In the melee that followed, the sheriff was seriously wounded and Thornton was rescued and taken to Canada. This is now the site of the Skillman Branch of the Detroit Public Library.

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2) Second Baptist Church Monroe and Beaubien Streets

Second Baptist Church, founded in 1836, is the oldest Black-led church in Michigan, and was a station on the Underground Railroad, the first school for Black students in Detroit, and a major venue for civil rights. Frederick Douglass, WEB DuBois, Carter G. Woodson, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., all spoke at Second Baptist Church. They have been at this corner since 1857.

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3) William and Julia Lambert Homesite 497 Larned Street (near Saint Aubin)

This was the home of Underground Railroad agents William & Julia Lambert (both African Americans). This couple owned successful businesses, used their home as a station on the Underground Railroad, and were conductors and stockholders (funders) on the Underground Railroad. William Lambert co-founded the Detroit Anti-Slavery Society, the Detroit Vigilant Committee, the African American Mysteries: Order of the Men of Oppression, and he and his wife Julia co-founded St. Matthew's Episcopal Church, the 3rd Black church in Detroit, which was a school and a station on the Underground Railroad. Frederick Douglass stayed in this home on one of his visits to Detroit. The historical marker that was placed here was stolen in 2016.

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4) George DeBaptiste Homesite Southwest corner of Larned Street and Beaubien Boulevard

This was the home of Underground Railroad agent George DeBaptiste (African American). DeBaptiste was a member of Second Baptist Church, and used his home as a station on the Underground Railroad. He was a successful businessman, and served as a conductor and stockholder of the Underground Railroad. He was a co-founder of the Detroit Vigilant Committee and the African American Mysteries: Order of the Men of Oppression, and owned his own steamboat—The T. Whitney—that assisted many freedom seekers to make their way to Canada. Today, the building at this corner is a Blue Cross/Blue Shield office.

5) William Webb Homesite Northeast corner of Saint Antoine and Congress Streets

William Webb (African American) was a grocer, and his home was a station on the Underground Railroad. He was a prominent member of the Detroit Vigilant Committee and the African American Mysteries: Order of the Men of Oppression. His home was the meeting place of Frederick Douglass and John Brown in March, 1859. There is a historical marker here.

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6) The Gateway to Freedom: International Underground Railroad Monument Detroit Riverfront, at the foot of Hart Plaza

This monument was sculpted by Ed Dwight (African American), a former astronaut. It was unveiled in 2001, to honor Detroit's role on the Underground Railroad. The sister monument—Tower of Freedom—is on the other side in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. The names and sites of Underground Railroad leaders and stations are etched on the monument.

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7) Seymour Finney Barn Northeast corner of State and Griswold Streets

This barn was owned by Seymour Finney (white American), a tailor, saloon owner, and innkeeper. He was a founding leader of the Detroit Anti-Slavery Society, and his barn served as a station on the Underground Railroad. There is a plaque on the building, owned by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit.

Across the Street in Capitol Park, is a historical marker that tells the story of Finney. It is near the original site of the First Michigan Capitol Building. Detroit was the capital of Michigan from 1805-1847. When the capital changed to Lansing in 1847, the old building became a school. William George Dolarson (African American) was the school janitor, but was also Finney's partner as a conductor on the Underground Railroad. He was a member of Second Baptist Church.

8) Old St. John's Evangelical Church Russell Street just south of Gratiot Avenue

Presently, St. John's-St. Luke's Evangelical United Church of Christ. This congregation is the first German Protestant church in Detroit. Although this building was built in 1874, its earlier building was a station on the Underground Railroad. One of the ways the church assisted freedom seekers to Canada, was to place them in a coffin and lead a funeral procession to the river. This would arouse no suspicion from the authorities. The freedom seekers would then be taken out of the casket at the riverbank and placed on a boat to Canada. One of the coffins is on display inside of the church.

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9) First Congregational Church Woodward Avenue and Forest Street

First Congregational Church was originally near the riverfront, and it was there that the church served as a station on the Underground Railroad. The present-day church houses the Underground Railroad Living Museum which leads groups on a tour in which the Underground Railroad is re-created with actors playing the parts of conductors and stationmasters on the Underground Railroad.

Further Learning: Reading Resources

Hudson, J. Blaine. Encyclopedia of the Underground Railroad. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2006. This encyclopedia focuses on the people, ideas, events, and places associated with the Underground Railroad.

Miles, Tiya. The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits. A book chronicling the fascinating and disturbing history of slavery in early Detroit. Miles delves in detail into why and how many slaves were owned by the city’s elite, relationships between the races, and individual stories about freed and enslaved people.

Mull, Carol E. The Underground Railroad in Michigan. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 2010. Provides a fresh examination of Michigan’s critical role in the movement to end slavery.

Smardz Frost, Karolyn and Tucker, Veda Smith. A Fluid Frontier: Slavery, Resistance and the Underground Railroad in the Detroit Borderland. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2016. An edited collection that seeks to provide a re-interpretation of the Underground Railroad in the Detroit River region.

Tobin, Jacqueline L. From Midnight to Dawn: The Last Tracks of the Underground Railroad. New York: Doubleday, 2007. Offers a new perspective on the Underground Railroad through the experiences of fugitive ex-slaves from the United States to free black settlements in Canada.

Tobin, Jacqueline L. Hidden in Plain View: A Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad. New York: Anchor Books, 2000. Explains how enslaved men and women encoded messages within quilt patterns that helped fugitives navigate their escape along the Underground Railroad.

Acknowledgements The DSO thanks City of Detroit Historian Jamon Jordan for the development of the content of this guide, the Detroit Public Library for compiling a list of resources for further learning, and Varnum for their sponsorship of community events surrounding the premiere of Carlos Simon's Troubled Water.

The Underground Railroad in Detroit | Detroit Symphony Orchestra

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Vivian Gordon Harsh (May 7, 1890 - August 17, 1960) was the first African American librarian in the Chicago Public Library system and a significant contributor to Chicago’s Black Renaissance. She was appointed head librarian of the George Cleveland Hall Branch, the city’s first library built in an African American community. She developed a Black history collection that would become a world-renowned resource for residents and scholars.

She was born in Chicago to Fenton and Maria (Drake) Harsh, both graduates of Fisk University. She began work in 1909 as a junior clerk at the Chicago Public Library. She received her BA in Library Science from Simmons College and took advanced courses at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Library Science.

She became the city’s first Black professional librarian. She recognized the need for library services on Chicago’s south side, the heart of the city’s African American community. Funding from philanthropist Julius Rosenwald allowed her to visit African American collections in other cities, providing the basis for the George C. Hall branch that opened in the Bronzeville neighborhood with her as its director.

She and Charlemae Rollins, a children’s librarian, developed the branch’s substantial African American resources along with programming for the Black community. The collection began with over 100 books on African Americans donated by George Bentley, founder of the Chicago branch of the NAACP. She expanded the collection through private donations and her contributions.

The library itself became a Mecca for literary and cultural icons of the period, some of whom contributed manuscripts to the institution. The resources have grown into the Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection of Afro-American History and Literature, the largest of its kind in the Midwest and located at the city’s Carter G. Woodson Regional Library. It includes 70,000 books and unique materials like the historic Illinois Writers Project “Negro in Illinois” paper.

In 1958, she retired from the Chicago Public Library. A city park near her childhood home was named in her honor. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

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Least Visited National Park Sites (2/6)

6. Carter G. Woodson Home National Historic Site

Where: Washington DC - 9th Street NW

2019 Visitors: 2381

Carter G. Woodson was one of the most important preservers of African American history, and the founder of Negro History Week (now celebrated as Black History Month). His home was the headquarters of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, The Journal of Negro History, and The Negro History Bulletin. Described as a center of learning, people such as Langston Hughes worked here. 

7. Bering Land Bridge National Preserve

Where: Nome, Alaska 

2019 Visitors: 2642

Bering Land Bridge lies at an important crossroad for animal and human movement that greatly influenced life in the Pleistocene Epoch (2.5 million to 11,700 years ago). The Bering Strait, which lies between Alaska and Russia, was once frozen, allowing life to venture from Asia to North America. This national preserve is home to caribou, muskoxen, arctic and red fox, brown and polar bears, and walrus. 

8. Eugene O’Neill National Historic Site

Where: California - 31 miles from San Francisco

2019 Visitors: 2944

America’s only Nobel Prize winning playwright, O’Neill wrote The Iceman Cometh, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, and A Moon for the Misbegotten within the walls of his California home. O’Neill, who lived a restless life, finally settled in this secluded 158-acre ranch in the San Ramon Valley. Alongside his Nobel Prize (1936), he also won four Pulitzers. 

9. Nicodemus National Historic Site

Where: Kansas - 232 miles from Wichita

2019 Visitors: 3540

After the Civil War, newly emancipated African Americans were told to head west to experience more freedom, and Kansas was considered the ‘Promised Land’ since it was so far removed from the rest of American society. Nicodemus is the oldest and only surviving Black settlement west of the Mississippi River. Containing five buildings, a townhall, a home, two churches, and a school, this historic site offers a glimpse into the plight for freedom from a society that rejected them. 

10. Mary Mcleod Bethune Council House National Historic Site

Where: Washington DC - Vermont Ave NW

2019 Visitors: 3788

The Mary Mcleod Bethune Council House was the original headquarters of the National Council of Negro Women. A historian and activist, Bethune was the first female president of Carter G. Woodson’s Association for the Study of African American Life and History. The home received many important guests, such as Eleanor Roosevelt and Josephine Baker. 

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[ad_1] The origins of Black Historical past Month might be traced again practically 100 years to an unassuming, three-story brick rowhouse in Washington.In 1922, Carter G. Woodson, generally known as “the daddy of Black historical past,” purchased the house at 1538 Ninth Avenue for $8,000. The house served because the headquarters for the Affiliation for the Research of Negro Life and Historical past (which is now generally known as the Affiliation for the Research of African American Life and Historical past, or A.S.A.L.H.). It was the place he ran the Related Publishers, the publishing home centered on African American tradition and historical past at a time when many different publishers wouldn’t settle for works on the subject. It’s the place The Journal of Negro Historical past and The Negro Historical past Bulletin had been based mostly, and it’s the place he initiated the primary Negro Historical past Week — the precursor to Black Historical past Month — in 1926.“If a race has no historical past, if it has no worthwhile custom, it turns into a negligible issue within the considered the world, and it stands at risk of being exterminated,” Dr. Woodson famously wrote.The location, owned by the Nationwide Park Service, is being restored and can doubtless be open to guests beginning this fall, a spokesperson for the Park Service stated.Although Dr. Woodson was the type of neighbor who doted on kids taking part in on the road and his stoop, at the same time as different adults instructed them to behave, 1538 Ninth Avenue was extra about his life’s work than serving as a standard residence. It turned generally known as Dr. Woodson’s “workplace dwelling,” as Willie Leanna Miles, who was a managing director of the Related Publishers, put it in her 1991 article “Dr. Carter Godwin Woodson as I Recall Him, 1943-1950.” The article was printed in The Journal of Negro Historical past, which was based by Dr. Woodson and remains to be working as The Journal of African American Historical past at present.Over time, the workplace dwelling turned an vital nexus level for the Black historical past motion, and stepping via its doorways was a proper of passage for a lot of Black students, writers and activists to hunt Dr. Woodson’s mentorship, work there or a minimum of go via. Mary McLeod Bethune, Lorenzo J. Greene, Lawrence Dunbar Reddick, John Hope Franklin, Langston Hughes and lots of extra all frolicked within the dwelling. Even after Dr. Woodson died in his bed room on the third flooring in 1950, A.S.A.L.H. remained based mostly there till 1971.In 1976, the identical 12 months that Negro Historical past Week formally grew into Black Historical past Month, the workplace dwelling was designated as a Nationwide Historic Landmark. Because the years went on, it fell into disrepair. In 2005, the Nationwide Park Service bought it together with two neighboring homes for $1.3 million, and is now engaged on restoring the constructing and making a welcome heart. Neighborhood RootsBorn in 1875, Dr. Woodson, who was a descendant of slavery, labored as a coal miner, a instructor and a faculty principal. Finally, he turned the second African American to earn a Ph.D. at Harvard — the primary being W.E.B. DuBois.When Dr. Woodson purchased the rowhouse in Washington, he “needed his group to have a nationwide stature, and that led him to the nation’s capital,” stated Vincent Vaise, one of many planning leads for the Park Service’s restoration mission.Shaw, the place the workplace house is located, was on the time a predominantly Black neighborhood — “just like the Harlem of Washington, D.C.,” Mr. Vaise stated. It was dwelling to Howard College, “Black Broadway,” in addition to a Black YWCA, the place Dr. Woodson would typically have lunch. In more moderen years, Shaw has been a hot-spot for stylish retailers and white millennial residents. The median dwelling sale worth in Shaw and Logan Circle, the adjoining neighborhood, for December was practically $750,000, in line with Redfin.

Ella McCall Haygan sharply remembers what Shaw was like throughout Dr. Woodson’s time. Ms. Haygan, a medical social employee who's now in her 80s, lived down the road from the workplace dwelling, when it was a thriving mental and cultural hub for Black minds. Shaw “was like a village,” Ms. Haygan stated. “Everybody knew everybody.”Dr. Woodson was identified among the many kids primarily for handing out treats. “The sweet retailer was proper by his home, and it was Black owned,” Ms. Haygan stated. “Woodson would purchase sweet and provides it to us.”“He was superb, however we didn’t notice this till we obtained in elementary faculty, and they might have Black historical past week in February,” stated Ms. Haygan. “A few of the children that lived on the block, we had been in the identical grade. We stated, ‘That’s Mr. Woodson?!’ And that’s once we actually discovered precisely who he was.”Ms. Haygan and the opposite children would typically get scolded by different adults for sitting on Dr. Woodson’s steps. However she recalled onetime she went inside, and the picture of all the assorted books and printed supplies made an imprint on her. “Once you went in his home, he had it arrange, I bear in mind, with the books and the pamphlets and stuff that he created. They was laying on the counter,” she stated. “It didn’t register on the time, however in a while it did. There was at all times a burning need for me to get an training.”She got here to understand his presence in her neighborhood much more deeply. “You'll suppose — he’s been to Harvard and all that stuff — that he could be someplace else. However he wasn’t. He was proper there.‘A Coaching Floor’Right this moment, an indication on the house’s facade reads “Affiliation For Research of Negro Life and Historical past, Inc.” and “Related Publishers, Inc.” The inside remains to be unfurnished, however the unique spiral staircase has been restored and put in. Mr. Vaise identified that the upper up you go within the constructing, the extra intimate the areas get. The primary flooring, the place the secretaries labored, was very public, open to prospects and guests. It was additionally “the place order and delivery, processing of The Negro Historical past Bulletin and The Journal of Negro Historical past and different miscellaneous clerical work was achieved,” Ms. Miles wrote in her article.“One by no means obtained the concept the boss would ask you to do something that he wouldn't do himself,” wrote the poet Langston Hughes in a 1950 article within the Negro Historical past Bulletin. Hughes, who labored there within the mid-Twenties, wrote that his job “was to open the workplace within the mornings, preserve it clear, wrap and mail books, help in answering the mail, learn proofs, financial institution the furnace at evening when Dr. Woodson was away.” He additionally recalled one occasion of sneakily taking part in playing cards within the first-floor delivery room with another colleagues, when Dr. Woodson got here dwelling sooner than anticipated from a visit. “No one obtained fired. As an alternative he requested our presence in his research the place he gave us an extended and really severe discuss on our duties to our work, to historical past, and to the Negro race,” Hughes wrote of the incident.Pero G. Dagbovie, a former editor of The Journal of African American Historical past and a distinguished professor of historical past at Michigan State College, stated that “some folks thought of the house to be type of like a coaching floor for future historians and students of the Black expertise.” At one level, Dr. Woodson hosted an exhibition of artwork from Benin within the workplace dwelling, Dr. Dagbovie identified. “He at all times needed folks to return and use the useful resource that was obtainable,” he stated.The second flooring housed Dr. Woodson’s research and archives, which at the moment are partly held by the Library of Congress. This flooring can be the place he would mentor the following technology of Black historians and students.

“My work house task was in Dr. Woodson’s library, 2nd flooring entrance, reverse the staircase resulting in the third flooring. This allowed me a possibility to listen to conversations from his workplace. He seldom missed telling a customer in regards to the truth he was as soon as a coal miner and as soon as earned a residing as a rubbish collector,” Ms. Miles, the managing director of the Related Publishers, wrote.The third and most personal flooring is the place Dr. Woodson slept. It’s additionally the place he died of a coronary heart assault in 1950. However his influence continued to develop posthumously — Negro Historical past Week turned Black Historical past Month, A.S.A.L.H. remains to be energetic and lots of of Dr. Woodson’s mentors went on to develop into distinguished students in their very own proper.For Ms. Haygan, as life carried on, Dr. Woodson was at all times at the back of her thoughts. She was homeless at one level and needed to drop out of college, however her recollections of Dr. Woodson made her need to persevere and ultimately end her training. She obtained her grasp's diploma in social work from the Catholic College of America in 1977. “I considered Dr. Woodson,” Ms. Haygan stated. “I considered him, and I stated, ‘Dr. Woodson, I did it.’” [ad_2] Supply hyperlink