Front:
Carter G.Woodson
CHINGTON
FEB
1984
20066
Black Heritage USA 20c
DC
Back:
As if to emulate the pride and determination of his race,
black American Carter G. Woodson rose from the poor
backwoods of Virginia to become world-renowned as
the "Father of Black History." Following high school,
Woodson went on to attend Berea College in Kentucky,
the University of Chicago, and even the Sorbonne in
Paris, France. Woodson finished his Ph.D. in history at
Harvard University in 1912 and spent the rest of his life
teaching and writing many detailed books about black
history. His most famous volume is The Negro in Our
History, which many scholars consider one of the finest
full-length works on black history. In 1926, Woodson
founded Negro History Week, which in the 1970's was
popularized as Black History Week, an annual obser-
vance during the first half of February, which coincides
with the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln and the great
black leader Frederick Douglass. In commemoration of
Carter G. Woodson, the U.S. Postal Service issued the
No. 84-9
©1984 The Maximum Card Collection
A Division of Unicover Corporation · Cheyenne, WY 82008-0007
Original painting by Shannon Stirnweis.
