Carter G. Woodson Quotes

United States, Historian
December 19, 1875 – April, 3, 1950.

Carter Godwin Woodson was an American historian, author, journalist and the founder of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History. He was one of the first scholars to study African-American history. A founder of The Journal of Negro History in 1916, Woodson has been cited as the "father of black history". In February 1926 he launched the celebration of "Negro History Week", the precursor of Black History Month.

Truth must be dug up from the past and presented to the circle of scholastics in scientific form and then through stories and dramatizations that will permeate our educational system.

Carter G. Woodson
- Past
- Stories
- Form
When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions.

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- Action
- Worry

We do not show the Negro how to overcome segregation, but we teach him how to accept it as final and just.

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- Teach
- Shows
- Accepting
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.

Carter G. Woodson
- World
- History
- Race
History shows that it does not matter who is in power or what revolutionary forces take over the government, those who have not learned to do for themselves and have to depend solely on others never obtain any more rights or privileges in the end than they had in the beginning.

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- Government
- Matter
- Force
At this moment, then, the Negroes must begin to do the very thing which they have been taught that they cannot do.

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- Black
- Moments
- Taught
The author takes the position that the consumer pays the tax, and as such every individual of the social order should be given unlimited opportunity to make the most of himself.

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Our most widely known scholars have been trained in universities outside of the South.

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- University
- Scholar

Negro banks, as a rule, have failed because the people, taught that their own pioneers in business cannot function in this sphere, withdrew their deposits.

Carter G. Woodson