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Professor Carter G. Woodson founds the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASNLH).
1915 (Sep 9)
Professor Carter G. Woodson founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASNLH). The group stood virtually alone for a time in attempting to properly portray the role of the Black American in U.S. history. Woodson, the son of formerly enslaved parents, held a doctorate from Harvard University. He is sometimes called "the father of modern black historiography," having edited for many years "The Journal of Negro History," other publications of the ASNLH, and having published a number of his own works on Black Americans. The association is now called the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH).
References:
- • Hornsby, Alton. Chronology of African-American History: Significant Events and People from 1619 to the Present. Detroit: Gale Research, 1995.