Carter Godwin Woodson

"When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions. You do not have to tell him not to stand here or go yonder. He will find his 'proper place' and will stay in it. You do not need to send him to the back door. He will go without being told. In fact, if there is no back door, he will cut one for his special benefit. His education makes it necessary." Overcoming extreme poverty, racism, and other adversities Carter Godwin...

Provocative work by distinguished African-American scholar traces the migration north and westward of southern blacks, from the colonial era through the early 20th century. Documented with information from contemporary newspapers, personal letters, and academic journals, this discerning study vividly recounts decades of harassment and humiliation, hope and achievement.

Carter G. Woodson's classic text on the emergence of African American churches, chronicling their story out of the eighteenth-century evangelical revivals and their transformations through the nineteenth and early twentieth century, is important for reasons other than "black church" history. With the exception of recent books, such as C. Eric Lincoln and Lawrence H. Mamiya's "The Black Church in the African-American Experience," Woodson's text remains...

In reprinting these orations the editor has endeavored to present them here as nearly as possible in their original form. No effort has been made to improve the English. Published in this form, then, these orations will be of value not only to persons studying the development of the Negro in his use of a modern idiom but also in the study of the history of the race. It is in this spirit that these messages are again given to the public.

La Mala Educación del Negro - "The Mis-educación of the Negro" nel original - es un libro publicado en 1933 por el Dr. Carter G. Woodson. La tesis del Dr. Woodson en su libro es que los afroamericanos de su época estaban siendo adoctrinados culturalmente en lugar de educados en las escuelas estadounidenses. Este condicionamiento, afirma, hace que los afroamericanos se vuelvan dependientes y busquen lugares inferiores en la sociedad más amplia...

Brief biographies of native African heroes and heroines with emphasis on those from south of the Sahara.