What was Dr Carter G Woodson purpose for Black History Month?

Answer 1

He was a author, editior, publisher, and historian. At 19, he tought hisself English and arithmetic, he entered high school and mastered a four-year curriculum in less than two years. From 1897 to 1900, Carter G. Woodson began teaching in Winona, Fayette County. In the1900, he returned to Huntington to become the principal of Douglass H.S. He received his Bachelor of Literature degree from Berea College, Kentucky. From 1903 to 1907, he was a school supervisor in the Philippines. Eventually he traveled throughout Europe and Asia and studied at the Sorbonne University in Paris. In 1908, he received his masters degree from the University of Chicago, and in 1912, he received his Ph.D. in history from Harvard University. He became the second black to receive a doctorate in history. He became very interested in History. In 1913 he became a member of Member of the American Negro Academy.In 1918 A Century of Negro Migration was published. Other books have started to follow Other books followed: A Century of Negro Migration in 1918, The History of the Negro Church in 1927, and The Negro in Our History. After retirereing from Howard University, he committed the rest of his life to historical research, and to preserving the history of African Americans. In 1926 Woodson commenced the annual February observance of Negro History Week. He chose February for the observance because February twelfth was Abraham Lincoln's birthday and February fourteenth was the accepted birthday of Frederick Douglass. By the 1970s, Negro History Week had extended to become Black History Month