Carter G. Woodson

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Susan G. Komen, like many women, fought breast cancer. She fought with everything she had, but she didn’t spend much time worrying about herself and her situation. Instead, she wanted to help the other women going through the same battle. Inspired by Susan’s compassion and want to help others, her sister, Nancy G. Brinker, started an organization in her honor. Susan’s dedication made me wonder what the organization was about. I did some research and found out what the organization does, what the…

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The Susan G. Komen Foundation, famous for raising money for breast cancer research, has a slightly darker side that your average person probably does not know about. Each year, around one million dollars in legal fees are spent because the Komen foundation vehemently…

Synopsis In 1987, Jay MacLeod brought the housing project of Clarendon Heights to our attention with his initial publishing of Ain’t No Makin’ It. With the first edition, we meet two distinct groups of boys: the Hallway Hangers and the Brothers. Eight years after introducing us to these two distinct groups, Jay Macleod makes his way back to Clarendon Heights.With the coming of the second edition, we are updated on the lives of the Hallway Hangers and the Brothers. Fifteen years after MacLeod…

cofounders of this organization were Carter G. Woodson, George Cleveland Hall, W.B. Hartgrove, Alexander L. Jackson, and James E. Stamps. Harvard graduate named Carter G. Woodson who promoted a national celebration of black contribution. He selected the second week of February during which Abraham Lincoln and Fredrick Douglas had celebrated their birthdays. He called it Negro Week (Horton 3). The Association for the study of Negro life and history…

fought to have equal rights when it came to education. In the early 1930’s, Carter G. Woodson challenged the idea of “Mis-Education” of the black race. Supported by prominent leaders at the time such as W. E. B. Dubois, Woodson argues on the “education system’s failure to present present authentic Negro History in schools and the bitter knowledge that there was a scarcity of literature available for such a purpose”(Woodson 1). This idea was still an issue up until the 1960’s, with the beginning…

run a laundry mat for Negroes and became rich from the idea. Woodson states that if one would have suggested this same idea to a Negro he would have become insulted with this idea and would feel that since he has a college education he is too good for such common business. "The so-called education of Negro college graduates leads them to throw away opportunities which they have and to go in quest of those which they do not find."(Woodson, 39) The author believes that any good opportunity should…

Founding intellectuals Malcolm X, WEB Dubois, Carter G. Woodson, and Frederick Douglass all believed that the role of the scholar in Black Studies was the most important in the fight against European powers and American institutionalization. The scholars would hold the key to preserving the history and heritage of African American culture. Malcolm X shared an intense analysis of the educational issues of African Americans. He sought to make blacks value their history and culture by making it…

Claudette Colvin, who was fifteen and pregnant at the time, was indeed the first African American to refuse to give up her seat. Moreover, I learned Carter G. Woodson first created “Negro History Week.” Now it is renamed and commonly known as “Black History Month.” I also learned that Nathan Hare got fried from Howard University, a historically black university, before he was able to start the first African…